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Nandan Nilekani to develop IT infra for NDA’s ‘Modicare’ health scheme

Press Trust of India, New Delhi | By
Feb 22, 2018 11:56 PM IST

The IT infrastructure for the healthcare scheme that Nandan Nilekani is expected to develop will be on as huge a scale as Aadhaar, and will have to be scaled up gradually in view of the massive range of the programme.

Tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani will assist the government in developing IT infrastructure for the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), which seeks to cover 10-crore families, a senior Niti Aayog official has said.

Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys as well as the brain behind Aadhaar.(Reuters File Photo)
Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys as well as the brain behind Aadhaar.(Reuters File Photo)

The IT infrastructure for the healthcare scheme will be of a huge scale as was required for Aadhaar and will have to be scaled up gradually in view of the massive range of the programme.

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Former UIDAI chairman Nilekani – the brain behind the Aadhaar – is also a member of the GST return simplification committee.

“We have consulted Nilkeni, we want to build Aadhar like model for the scheme (NHPS)... He has agreed to help us,” the official said.

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The premium on insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh for every eligible household under the NHPS has been pegged at around Rs 900-1,000 per family annually, lower than the earlier estimate of Rs 1000-1,200.

Under the funding arrangement, the Centre will provide 60 per cent fund, while the remaining money would have to come from respective states.

In case of special category states, the Centre will provide 90 per cent of fund.

In his Budget speech earlier this month, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had provided an initial corpus of Rs 2,000 crore for NHPC which aims to provide a medical cover of up to Rs 5 lakh to over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families, constituting 40 per cent of India’s total population.

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