Center Dupes People With The Revolutionary Scheme?

The Central Government the other day announced a revolutionary scheme – National Health Protection Scheme which is the world’s largest govt funded program. This scheme will cover 10 Crore Poor families across the country and will be covering 50 Crore members into the scheme.

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Under this flagship scheme, every poor and vulnerable family will get 5 lakhs per year for health care. But then it is now emerging that it is not totally a central scheme and the states will have to bear 40% of the expense incurred. The Central Government has done a meager allocation to the scheme.

But then with the view of 2019 elections, the central government has announced it as a central scheme to influence the voters. Interestingly, a similar scheme ‘Chandranna Bima’ is already being implemented in Andhra Pradesh from the last couple of years.