The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has begun an initiative to provide health insurance cover to the servitors of the shrine.Camps have been set up at different localities in Puri town to take photographs and inclusion of other details of members of the Sevayat families.Under the scheme, a maximum of seven members of a Sevayat family would be entitled to treatment for ailments subject to a maximum coverage of Rs2 lakh per annum. The families would be provided with health cards for the purpose.
A total of about 9,000 family members of 1,940 Sevayat families enumerated as per the 2013 socio-economic census of Sevayat families would benefit from the scheme.Photographs of the Sevayats would be taken on two different dates in each zone, the second date being for those who miss the first one.
The exercise has begun from Tuesday and would continue till January 31, according to SJTA sources.