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The district administration on Wednesday held a workshop for the smooth commencement of the ‘Swasthya Sathi’ project of the state government in Malda.
Fifteen concerned departments like Home, Women and Child Development, Labour and Employment, Finance etc have been asked to submit the names of the beneficiaries on or before the 23rd of this month to set up a database in this connection.
According to sources, beneficiaries having digital ration card must be enlisted according to the ration card number so that the officials who already have the database of ‘Khadya Sathi’ project can set up the Swasthya Sathi database with the help of the data already uploaded for the previous project.
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There are almost 36 lakh people under the ‘Khadya Sathi’ whose database have already been created along with the family details. Their details can be easily obtained by using the digital ration card number.
The state government has directed that the project may be started on any day after the 6th of October and the district administration is planning to inaugurate this as soon as possible.
Notably, members of self help groups, civic and green volunteers, village police, ASHA workers, NVF, ICDS workers, approved daily labourers working on contract and many others under this project will be provided health insurance of 1.5 lakh rupees annually for medical expenses in the listed medical institutions to be prepared by the state government.
Critical illnesses like cancer, neuro surgeries, cardio thoracic surgeries etc will be covered up to a sum of rupees five lakh and for all this the premium will be paid by the state government and not by the beneficiaries.
A smart card will be issued to the beneficiaries. All the family members no matter how many they are, including the parents of both the spouses, will be covered under the project.
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