Amit Shah launches Ayushman CAPF scheme for 28 lakh central pressure personnel
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched the ‘Ayushman CAPF’ plan, extending the healthcare advantages of the Central medical health insurance scheme to the seven Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and their dependents.
During a operate on the CRPF Group Centre at Amingaon in Guwahati, the Home Minister distributed Ayushman CAPF well being playing cards amongst seven personnel from the seven totally different CAPFs.
Under the Ayushman CAPF scheme, round 28 lakh personnel from seven CAPFs — Central Reserve Police Force, Assam Rifles, National Security Guard, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Sashastra Seema Bal — and their households can be coated by the ‘Ayushman Bharat: Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana’ (AB PM-JAY).
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A joint initiative by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Health Authority (NHA), the scheme would supply cashless healthcare providers to the serving CAPF personnel and their members of the family. It can be applied throughout the nation in a phased method.
The convergence between Ayushman Bharat and CAPF is a primary of its variety initiative leveraging strengths of the prevailing sturdy IT framework, entry to the community of varied personal hospitals and portability of providers throughout the nation.
This initiative would assist in shifting away from any paper-based guide strategy of availing healthcare advantages by the CAPF personnel and their households to a paperless service at NHA’s IT platform.
In addition, a 24×7 name centre, on-line grievance administration system, fraud and abuse management system, and real-time monitoring dashboards are the opposite key options of the scheme.
A MoU was signed on Saturday between the NHA and the Union Home Ministry within the presence of Shah, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai and Assam Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the CRPF Group Centre.
Later, Shah tweeted: “Furthering PM Narendra Modi ji’s efforts in direction of the welfare of our CAPF personnel, launching the historic ‘Ayushman CAPF’ healthcare scheme in Guwahati, Assam.
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