ABOUT BIJU KRUSHAK KALYAN YOJANA:
Odisha lives in its Villages and farmers are its
backbone. They toil hard to feed the nation. They suffer in silence and when
they are affected by ailments and diseases, pay heavy economic, social and
emotional price. The most important and major cause of our farmers falling to
poverty trap is the financial hazards and deprivation that health related
expenses bring to them. Biju Krushak Kalyan Yojana is brought in as a tribute to
the Farmers and their families to provide them health security. It is an earnest
effort to provide them financial support through health and accident insurance
as a part of the commitment of the welfare state.
Rural Odisha houses 83% of the total population of the state. One of the major
insecurities for rural populace and farmers is absence of health cover for such
farmers and their family members. Insecurity relating to absence of health
cover, heavy expenditure on medical care and hospitalization and recourse to
inadequate and incompetent treatment is not only a social and psychological
burden borne by these populace but there are significant economic costs
resulting from loss of earning and progressive deterioration of health.Thus, with a
view to providing health insurance cover to farmers in the Rural Odisha and
their families, the Government of Odisha has announced the “Biju Krushak Kalyan
Yojana”.
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