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Coimbatore, Feb. 25 The Tamil Nadu Government has ordered that the National Health Insurance Scheme (Rashtria Swasthya Bima Yojana) for the unorganised sector workers belonging to the below poverty line (BPL) category and their families be taken up in Kancheepuram and Tirunelveli districts on a pilot basis.

The Government has constituted a ‘Health Insurance Scheme Support Cell’ with the Commissioner of Labour as the Chairman.

In a Government order issued on February 20, Mr Ramesh Kumar Khanna, Secretary, Labour and Employment Department, said that the NHIS provided health insurance cover to the unorganised sector workers belonging to BPL category and their families (unit of five) for a total insured sum of Rs 30,000 per family per year on a family floater basis. All BPL families were to be covered in a phased manner under the scheme in the next five years commencing from 2008-09.

While the Union Government would contribute 75 per cent of the total premium of Rs 750 per family per year (i.e maximum Rs 565), the State should pay the balance cost of Rs 185.

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