26 Crore Ayushman Cards Created under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana

26 October 2023: Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) has crossed milestone of 26 crore Ayushman cards across the country on 19th October 2023. The flagship scheme being implemented by the National Health Authority (NHA) provides health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to 12 Crore beneficiary families.

Since the launch of the campaign on 13th September 2023, more than 1.5 cr Ayushman Card requests have been successfully received on NHA’s IT platform. In the month of October’ 23, 86 lakh Ayushman Cards have been created till 19th October 2023.

In order to reach out to the last mile, NHA has launched ‘Ayushman App’ for Ayushman Card creation. This app has a unique feature of self-verification. In simple 4 steps, this feature enables users to create Ayushman Card without visiting any card creation centre. Further, any person can help beneficiaries to create Ayushman card. Thus, the Ayushman App enables Jan Bhagidari. The success of this application can be measured from the fact that the app has been downloaded for more than 26 lakhs times, since the launch of the app on 13th September, 2023.

Today Ayushman Card has become a symbol of equity, entitlement and empowerment. It gives an assurance to the poor and deprived family that they will be protected against the double-whammy of disease and the debilitating impact of catastrophic expenditure incurred for its treatment. Underscoring this fact, Government is making all out efforts to ensure that all eligible beneficiaries possess Ayushman Card.