Presenting the Union Budget 2011-12 in the Lok Sabha today, Shri Mukherjee said that the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana has emerged as an effective instrument for providing a basic health cover to poor and marginal workers. Presently, it is being extended to MGNREGA beneficiaries, beedi workers and others.
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Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Will be Extended
Special Correspondent - 2011-02-28 20:12
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has proposed in the Union Budget 2011-12 that the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana will be extended to cover unorganized sector workers in hazardous mining and associated industries like slate and slate pencil, dolomite, mica and asbestos etc.