Ranchi: The Mukhya Mantri Swasthya Beema Yojana, meant to extend health insurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh to BPL families, will run concurrently with a national health scheme that is to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 25.

After a cabinet meeting on Friday, state health minister Ramchandra Chandravanshi said once Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission was launched, all 59 lakh BPL families covered by the National Food Security Act would get insurance.

While the Centre will take care of 60 per cent of the premium payable against 28 lakh families, the remaining 40 per cent will be borne by the state.

"The state will also pay premiums for the remaining 31 lakh BPL families. Still the yearly expenses incurred by the state on health insurance will come down from Rs 600 crore to Rs 401 crore because of the Centre's contribution," the minister explained.

He said 950 procedures, diagnosis, treatment, hospitalisation, surgery, post-hospitalisation treatments and more were covered. "The number of procedures will now go up to 1,350," the minister added.

Principal health secretary Nidhi Khare said that the best of medical treatment would be available to beneficiaries at reputable hospitals. She said beneficiaries would be provided with smart cards and all transactions would be cashless.

National Insurance Company will be a partner and will take care of expenses up to Rs 1 lakh. Khare added that a trust had been formed to process bills ranging between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 5 lakh.

Other decisions

• All major ongoing or proposed public welfare projects - the innovation lab, convention hall in Ranchi, professional college in Jamshedpur, medical college in Palamau, inland port in Sahebganj and airport in Deoghar - will be named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A statue of Vajpayee will also be installed on the new Vidhan Sabha premises

• The government will award excellence awards in Vajpayee's name in journalism, literature (rising young poets) and bureaucracy.

The Centre will, however, be requested to name the proposed road bridge over Ganga in Sahebganj after Sido-Kanhu

*A sum Rs 30 crore approved for payment of crop insurance premium amounts of farmers during the current fiscal

*Twelve revenue villages of Hariharganj block in Palamau district will form a nagar panchayat

*One acre of government land will be transferred free of cost to Union HRD ministry for setting up a Kendriya Vidyalaya in Garhwa

*As much as 9.036 acres will be given to Indian Railways on payment of Rs 2.25 crore for the Godda-Hansdiha rail project

*The services of 18 contractual employees working at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi will be regularised in two phases. In the first phase, six employees will be benefited

*Services of 78 employees of various boards and corporations working since unified Bihar days will be regularised

*Temporary advance withdrawal limit of governor's secretariat raised from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh

*First supplementary budget approved with retrospective effect.