Under the aegis of ‘Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana’
(RSBY) and Mukhyamantri Swathya Bima Yojana (MSBY), the remaining 44 per cent smart cards would be prepared from July onwards in the State, officials informed.To get this done, around 2.5 lakh applications have been sent to the various municipal corporations and other civic bodies. These applications have to be submitted within a month. After that the process to issue smart cards will commence, officials said.
Due to the Assembly and the lok Sabha polls in the State, the preparation of cards was delayed.On the other hand, after lifting of Model Code of Conduct in the State, the Health Department has commenced the process of issuing smart cards with the help of civic bodies.It has been estimated that some four lakh families will get smart cards in the district out of which 56 per cent is already done. According to Additional Municipal Commissioner GR Soni the people coming under BPl and APl catagory should collect their application forms from their respective Corpoators and submit them to their Zonal offices by June end.
A separate team will come to take photographs and issue smart cards to the beneficiaries.He said the applications submitted at the civic bodies would be sent to Delhi for investigation. After a proper registration, a team will come to issue the cards. The process will expedite after July. People will hugely benefit from the smart cards and also they will get health benefit up to Rs50,000 in Government and Government recognised hospitals, free of cost.