6.51 Lakh Workers of Haryana to be Covered in Cashless Scheme

• 08 Nov 2022

Why in News?

• On November 7, 2022, Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal informed that the government is going to expand the scope of cashless scheme health insurance scheme in the state under which more than six lakh 51 thousand employees, pensioners and their dependents will be covered among other categories.

Key Points

• In this scheme, under category-1, three lakh 43 thousand 746 families of government and corporation employees, three lakh five thousand families of pensioners of Haryana will get this benefit.
• Category-2 will include 1200 families of accredited journalists, 424 families of soldiers of Azad Hind Fauj, 555 families of persons jailed during emergency, 186 families of persons associated with Hindi movement and 614 families of persons jailed during World War II.
• The Chief Secretary has instructed the concerned officials to geographically map the private hospitals included in the list and prepare a draft for the scheme after taking suggestions from the officers and employees' associations.
• He said that for this scheme, treatment in emergency situations in unlisted hospitals will be allowed as per the current practice. Hospitals empanelled with state capitals, metro cities under the 'Pradhan Mantri Jan-Arogya Yojana' can also be empanelled by a Haryana government insurance company.
• It is known that services are currently available in all empanelled hospitals in Haryana, Tricity, NCR on pan India level.
• In this regard of cashless scheme, the Chief Secretary has directed the officials to prepare the RFP (Request for Proposal) of the insurance scheme soon.
• A Request for Proposal (RFP) is issued at an early stage in a procurement process, where an invitation is often submitted through a bidding process for suppliers to submit proposals on a specific commodity or service.