Maintaining its progress, the Yeshasvini co-operative farmers’ health scheme has covered 57 per cent of the target set for 2010-11 till the end of August in Mysore district.
The district has a target to cover 300,000 farmers under the scheme during the year.
Revenues of Rs2.3 crore have been mobilised till the end of August under this public-private community partnership insurance model.
The enrolment made so far exceeds the coverage achieved in 2009-10 when only 153,368 members were enlisted against the targe of 300,000 coverage, resulting in only 51.12 per cent and a collection of Rs2.11 crore as membership fee. During the year, Rs3.08 crore were spent on treatment of the member-farmers and their families.
As the amount spent on farmers’ health exceeded the collection, the excess expenditure of Rs97.27 lakh was met by the government, Mysore and Chamarajanagar Districts Co-operative Central Bank president C Basave Gowda told the district level implementation committee.
Stating that a good number of farmers from Mysore district were availing benefits under the social security scheme initiated in the early 2003 targeting all co-operative society members in the rural areas of Karnataka, he said the Chamarajanagar and Mysore District Milk Federation was contributing Rs50 towards the membership amount of each farmer. The rest of Rs100 is to be paid by its members willing to become beneficiaries under the scheme.
Similarly, the MDCC Bank was meeting Rs40 of the membership fee while the intending member had to pay the rest Rs110.
The enrolled cardholders can avail of medical treatment at approved private as well as government hospitals on a cashless basis. They can get treatment at the recently-opened Jayadeva Coronory unit at the K R Hospital in Mysore, Gowda said.
