The centrally sponsored health program, aimed at helping below-poverty-line citizens to afford the cost and expense of maintaining health of their families and which was rolled out in the country in 2008, has been implemented in all states of India.
According to requirements of the scheme, the state needs to ink a memorandum of agreement with a private insurance firm for the process.
The state government engaged Gurgaon-based Royal Sundaram Insurance Company Private Limited and the task of executing
the scheme in the state was given to departments like Rural Development, Planning, Labour and Health.
The joint director of the Rural Development department, TAdo, on a query said that the government
