Nagpur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday launched the Maharashtra government's pet scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana (RGJAY), which will provide a unique health insurance scheme for the poor.
Gandhi said the Congress-led government at the centre was committed to the welfare of the common man and the health insurance scheme will benefit the poor, especially rural women and children.
The RGJAY aims to provide free and quality critical medical care in both government and private hospitals to people below the poverty line and above poverty line, with an annual family income of around Rs.100,000.
The state government had launched the project on a pilot basis in July 2012 in eight of the state's 35 districts, benefiting around five million families.
The government pays the premium of Rs.333 per family for an insurance scheme of upto Rs.150,000 and provides treatment option for 972 surgeries, therapies, procedures and 121 follow-up processes.
