BENGALURU: In last year's Budget, finance minister Arun Jaitley promised a health cover of Rs 1 lakh for each poor family under the National Health Protection Scheme , meant to replace the UPA's government's Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). Sources in the Union health ministry say most states are not keen on implementing RSBY. "We have been asking every state to implement RSBY to provide cashless health insurance to BPL households and 11 other defined categories of unorganised workers. While some are not interested to continue Congress' flagship scheme and are awaiting the new one, others claim to have their own insurance schemes," said a senior health ministry official. He said they had already got an extension for RSBY till March 2018.Introduced by the labour ministry in 2008 for poor unorganised workers, RSBY was extended to all BPL families after the health ministry took over in 2015.

Source: Times of India November 06, 2017 22:06 UTC