Only the names which figure in the electoral rolls will be able to avail the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme in the State. The Director of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Neeraj Khairwal, through video conferencing on Wednesday, asked the Udham Singh Nagar district administration to complete necessary formalities like filing of applications by the eligible people and submit the filled-up applications to the insurance companies by March 23, 2015.
Except the income tax payers, pensioners, Government servants, all whose names figure in the electoral rolls are entitled to avail the scheme, said Khairwal, adding the health insurance cards will be given to the eligible. Keeping in view the scheme’s importance, the officials are supposed to implement this scheme sincerely, maintained the senior district administration officials.
Khairwal also called upon them to involve respective areas’ SDMs, tehsildars and patwaris in the process. Udham Singh Nagar district administration has asked the district health department officials to assign to each ASHA health worker the task of preparing 30 health insurance cards to be given to the eligible in their respective areas.
More so, it has also stressed on the need to involve the local civic bodies in the process of implementing the scheme. However, the district administration, Udham Singh Nagar, expressed disappointment over slow registration process of the scheme in some blocks of the district, particularly Rudrapur and Sitarganj, and asked the officials to expedite things.