Mediclaim for BPL families; HC asks CEO of UP RSBY to appear

The Delhi High Court has asked the CEO of a health project in Uttar Pradesh to personally appear and apprise it of actions taken on the allegation that master health cards were issued to persons not belonging to below poverty line (BPL) families.
The Rashtriya Swasth Bima Yojna (RSBY) is aimed at providing annual health insurance cover to the tune of Rs 30,000 to five members of a family belonging to BPL category.
According to the scheme, which is currently operational in 25 states including Uttar Pradesh, Labour and Employment Ministry would pay 75 per cent and the rest 25 per cent cost would be borne by the state government.

Justice Manmohan took note of the plea of Varanasi-based Mukti Mission Sewa Hospital that it has wrongly been removed from the list of hospitals which were empaneled by third party administrator (TPA) Medsave Healthcare on behalf of the Centre to provide treatment to BPL families under RSBY scheme.
The petition, filed through advocate Ravi Prakash Gupta, claims that the TPA wrongly accused the charitable hospital of raising bogus claims as the ground of de-rostering it.
The court has now summoned the chief executive officer of RSBY to personally appear before it on January 17.

The petition alleged that there have been complaints that master health cards have been issued to some "undeserving and fictitious persons" under the scheme and moreover, the central government did not conduct any survey on its own and relied on the BPL list prepared by the state government.

"Issue appropriate writ, order or direction instituting investigation and inquiry into issuance of large number of fabricated smart cards to fake persons under RSBY issued (in collaboration with UP State Nodal Agency) on the basis of state census of BPL families...," the petition said.
The plea has also sought a direction to the Centre and the TPA not to remove the charitable hospital from the list of empaneled hospitals.