Chandigarh: The Punjab Government will bring nearly 8.5 lakh farmers and their families under the ambit of the health insurance cover in line with the ‘Ayushman Bharat Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana’ for the year 2021-22.
The scheme comes into effect from August 20.
Besides, all the farmers having ‘J’ forms and ‘Sugarcane Weighment Slips’ would be eligible for this health scheme.
To help the farmers in applying for this scheme , the Mandi Board has launched a dedicated portal for first time from this year. Now the farmers need not to visit market committee office to apply manually as was the case earlier. The interested farmers can simply apply on Mandi Board’s portal https://emandikaran-pb.in with uploading related documents.
Disclosing this here today, Chairman Punjab Mandi Board Lal Singh said that the Mandi Board would pay the entire premium for the insurance cover of all the farmers, who will get cashless treatment facility up to Rs 5 lakh per annum. He further said that all these farmers and their families will now be covered with effect from August 20, 2021.
He also informed that the number of farmers covered under Health Insurance Scheme during the last year of the scheme stood at around 5.01 lakh based on ‘J’ forms and ‘Sugarcane Weighment Slips’. Now, the number of farmers has reached nearly 8.5 lakh with 7.91 lakh farmers having ‘J’ forms registered with the Mandi Board and 55000 cane growers.
–INDIA NEWS STREAM