By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Kozhikode: About 10,000 families living Below Poverty Line (BPL) in Vengara constituency of the state are set to get health insurance to the tune of Rs 1.6 lakh in addition to the insurance offered through various government schemes.
Starting May end, this will be possible thanks to a charitable trust formed by P K Kunhalikutty, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader and Minister for Industries, ostensibly to help alleviate the plight of the hundreds of the marginalized people in his constituency Vengara in Malappuram district.
The trust, named after his mother late Koolippulakkal Pathummakutty, will run the project for additional health insurance with the cooperation of various businessmen in the state and NRIs, Kunjalikkutty told local media persons and added, the Trust has selected all the persons enrolled under the RSBY (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana) project as beneficiaries.
The Minister said he was looking to lend support to the poor through the project by implementing it with public-private cooperation.
The persons enrolled in the insurance scheme will get a maximum of Rs 60,000 as health benefit in a year, apart from the RSBY insurance amount of Rs 30,000. That means an eligible person will get a total of Rs 90,000 as insurance benefit in a year. He will also get Rs one lakh as critical care allowance, apart from the 60,000 under the RSBY insurance scheme. A person will get maximum health coverage of Rs 2.5 lakh under critical and normal medical care, he claimed.
“The yearly premium of the insurance scheme is around Rs 500 and the trust will renew the premium in the coming years with the support of private persons,” Ubaidullah Nalath, personal assistant to the minister and the person in charge of the project, said to the local media persons.