Maha to launch insurance schemes for drivers, workers

The Maharashtra Government has launched schemes to provide health insurance cover to all the 52 lakh people living in the state below poverty line (BPL) and is planning to launch insurance schemes for drivers and domestic workers in the state. The process has already begun in the seven districts of the state thus far and 83,000 BPL families already have been given the insurance cover . The state government has already reached an MoU with the state-run non-life insurer, New India Assurance Company for the seven districts. The scheme was part of a national scheme known as Rashtriya Swasthya Beema ...

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