Ayushman Bharat Yojana Eligibility & Benefits: There is no limit on family size, age or gender under this scheme. Ayushman Golden Card can be issued to any eligible family.
New Delhi: The Government of India is running Ayushman Bharat Yojana for the economically weaker sections of the country’s citizens. Ayushman Bharat Yojana is also known as Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Prime Minister Narendra Modi started this scheme in the year 2018. This scheme is a kind of health insurance plan for the poor people of the country. Under this scheme, beneficiaries are given free treatment facility up to Rs 5 lakh in government or listed private hospitals.
If you want to take advantage of this scheme, then you should have complete information about it. Here we are going to tell you who can take the benefit of Ayushman Yojana and what are its benefits.
Who can take benefit of Ayushman Yojana
Ayushman Bharat Yojana provides health coverage to those people of the country whose income is very low. Apart from this, the benefit of this scheme is given to the poor and economically weak people. For this, the government has set some eligibility criteria. According to which, the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana will be given to those families in rural areas whose houses have mud walls and mud roofs. Those who do not have any member in their family between the age of 16- 59 years.
Not only this, tribal SC/ST, landless families, daily wage laborers or families which have a disabled member and do not have any physically capable adult member in their family have also been brought under the ambit of Ayushman Bharat Yojana (Ayushman Yojana Eligibility). .
You can get information about whether you are eligible for Ayushman card or not by calling 14555 or from Ayushman app.
What is Ayushman Golden Card?
There is no limit on family size, age or gender under this scheme. Ayushman Golden Card can be issued to any eligible family. This card is valid in more than 13,000 government and private hospitals in the country. You can apply for Ayushman Golden Card both online and offline. After the card is issued, in case of illness, free treatment can be done by showing it.
Which diseases are treated free in this scheme?
Through the Ayushman Golden Card issued under the Ayushman scheme, all old and new diseases can be treated for free. Apart from serious diseases like cancer, more than 1500 diseases are covered in it.
Benefits of Ayushman Yojana (Ayushman Yojana Benefits)
Under this, in case of illness, you just have to show the Ayushman card at the time of admission in the hospital. After this, no paper or cash is required for the treatment expenses. That is, we can say that under this scheme, paperless and cashless treatment can be done and that too for free. In this, you can get your treatment done in any listed hospital across the country. In this, apart from the cost of treatment, the cost of transportation is also covered.
