Around 11 lakh jobs are estimated to be generated due to Ayushman Bharat scheme in the next five to seven years, which will make it the second largest employment generator after the railways, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.
India’s healthcare system will be an example for the world, Modi said while addressing an event to mark the completion of one year of the flagship health insurance programme which he termed one of the several revolutionary steps taken by ‘new India’.
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It was the scheme’s big achievement that 46 lakh people have been pulled out of the “darkness of disease”, the Prime Minister said, adding that the PMJAY scheme has turned into garibon ki jai (a victory for poor).
Source: Business Line
