Common Service Centers to help in implementation of Ayushman Bharat

Common Service Center (CSC) and National Health Accounts (NHA) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme through 3 lakh Common Service Centers (CSCs) across the country. Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) aims  cover over 10 crore poor vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage of up to Rs. 5 lakh (per family per year) for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.

Benefits

Beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat can visit nearby CSCs across India to get the benefit of this scheme. CSCs will help beneficiary to identify his name in Health Ministry database and his entitlement for the scheme. It will also help beneficiary to scan and upload his KYC documents for verification of his identity and claim his entitlement. It will also provide beneficiary facility to print his Ayushman Scheme card which will be his base source claim. This card can be used at hospitals to claim the benefits under Ayushman Bharat Abhiyan. CSCs will also provide requisite information about scheme and promote it among citizens so that maximum number of beneficiaries can avail the benefit.

Common Service Centres (CSC)

CSC is an initiative of Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY). It is strategic cornerstone of Digital India programme. It is pan-India network catering to regional, geographic, linguistic and cultural diversity of country, thus enabling Government’s mandate of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society. There are as many as 2.91 lakh CSCs operate in the country today.
They are mostly ICT enabled front end service delivery points at village level for delivery of government and private services. These CSCs serve as access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, financial, healthcare, education and agriculture services, apart from host of B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the country. They also serve as change agents by promoting rural entrepreneurship and building rural capacities and livelihoods.

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018