QuestionSchemes / health
Centrally sponsored scheme Ayushman Bharat is a national health insurance system for:
- (a) women.
- (b) every citizen.
- (c) old age people.
- (d) poor and vulnerable.
Answer: (d) poor and vulnerable.
Ayushman Bharat–PMJAY (2018) gives ₹5 lakh per family per year cover for secondary and tertiary care to poor and vulnerable families identified by SECC 2011 (about 10.74 crore families then). It is not universal.