Odisha has won the National Award in implementation of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).
Secretary of labor and ESI Department CTM Suguna received the award from the Union Minister of labor & Employment at a national workshop held in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
In the first year of its implementation in all the 30 districts from December 2011 to January 2012, Odisha has enrolled 33.94 lakh BPl families, around 65 per cent of them, which has been adjudged the best in the country.
Every BPl family of five members under the scheme is eligible for free treatment up to Rs 30,000 per year. Odisha's performance on the average family size of 3.28 and claims settled to the extent of Rs 50 crore in less than nine months of the policy period was highly appreciated.