All women and girls associated with the Nanhi Chhaan NGO, as well as those of the model village Mann, will get an insurance cover of 10 years on the occasion of Rakhar Punia under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY).
Announcing this, the Union Food Processing Industry Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday said that she would distribute PMSBY cards to the girls and women under the Nanhi Chhan Foundation at a function to be held in Bathinda and Mansa on August 27.
“I am taking this step as an elder sister to safeguard the interests of the families who are working selflessly for the betterment of society,” she said.
Besides, 10-year insurance cover will also be provided to all the women of Mann village adopted under Adarsh Gram Yojna by the Union Minister on the occasion of Rakhar Puniya.
Harsimrat said that both steps would be path breaking initiatives resulting in provision of essential social security protection in the unfortunate event of death by any cause or death or disability due to an accident.
She said that PMSBY will offer accidental death-cum-disability cover of `2 lakh, `1 lakh for partial permanent disability, to all savings bank account holders in the age group of 18 to 70 years for a premium of `12 per annum per subscriber.
Meanwhile, in a simultaneous development, the Union Minister appealed to all brothers to bestow insurance covers on the sacred occasion of Rakhar Puniya and Raksha Bandhan to their sisters.
“The festival of Raksha Bandhan symbolised the sacred relationship of brothers and sisters. It would be in then be in the fitness of things for brothers to gift Insurance cover to their sisters,” said Harsimrat, who was in Badal village to attend the bhog ceremony of a relative.