Economic Survey 2021: PM-JAY improved health insurance coverage by 54% for states
The survey said health insurance claims for dialysis did not diminish due to COVID-19 or lockdown in March-April 2020 even though there was a steep fall in claims of other categories. January 29, 2021 / 04:48 PM IST
The Economic Survey 2020-21 said the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) is being used for high frequency but low-cost care such as dialysis.
PMJAY is a fully-funded government health insurance scheme that provides Rs 5 lakh medical insurance coverage per year for 107.4 million families identified as per the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011.
The survey said PM-JAY enhanced health insurance coverage. Across all the states, it said the proportion of households with health insurance increased by 54 percent for the states that implemented PM-JAY while falling by 10 percent in states that did not.
By Dr Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta
Delivering a Special Lecture organized by Centre for Work and Welfare (CWW) at the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI) on Labour, Employment and Pandemic: Policy Suggestions and Way Forward for Budget 2021, Prof Santosh Mehrotra, retired professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), observed that the fiscal stimulus provided by the Government of India (GoI) post-lockdown was severely inadequate. It was only a fraction of what was provided post the 2008 global financial meltdown where the effects on the economy were comparatively mediocre, he maintains.
Prof Mehrotra stated that while going into the ill-planned lockdown, India already had about 280 million unemployed people. He added that the growth rate of the country was falling quarter by quarter since 2016 and had hit a dismal low of 4.1% in early 2020. The lockdown imposed in March, which is touted as the most stringent in the world by various reports, skyrocketed India’s unemployme
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There needs to be closer engagement between all stakeholders of the Census and the Socio-Economic and Caste Census
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There needs to be closer engagement between all stakeholders of the Census and the Socio-Economic and Caste Census
Enumerating, describing and understanding the population of a society and what people have access to, and what they are excluded from, is important not only for social scientists but also for policy practitioners and the government. In this regard, the Census of India, one of the largest exercises of its kind, enumerates and collects demographic and socio-economic information on the Indian population. However, no data exists in a vacuum. It has its own history, context and purpose.
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