News
Date:
13 February 2012
Country:
India
Title:
Health Insurance for Unorganised Sector Too
Publication:
Indian Express
Reporter:
CG, Manoj.
Description:
The smart card-based cashless scheme, which was launched in 2007 for below poverty line families, has already been extended to cover construction workers, NREGA beneficiaries, street vendors, beedi workers and domestic workers. It will now cover sanitation workers, ragpickers, mine workers, rickshawpullers and autorickshaw and taxi drivers.
