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Bengal gets international recognition for implementing health insurance scheme

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World Bank and Global Alliances for Social Protection from GIZ (German Cooperation) have appreciated the excellent work being done by West Bengal Government in the implementation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).

The scheme provides cashless indoor treatment benefits up to Rs 30000 per family annually through a network of 1043 hospitals throughout West Bengal.

West Bengal has the highest number of active RSBY smart cards in any State in India, issued to 60 lakh families and extended benefits of Rs 225 Crores to 3.3 lakh insured persons in last one year.

Congratulating the team RSBY, WB CM wrote on Facebook:

“West Bengal also leads in coverage of RSBY amongst the BPL and vulnerable categories, and the first state to issue RSBY card in the name of Female as Head of the family.

I am very happy that Bengal has been invited to share their experience in social sector insurance in a global learning forum in Berlin being organised in June 2015 by World Bank and GIZ.

Bengal continues to show the way.”

Bengal Tourism to promote ‘Little Europe’ along the river Hooghly

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The West Bengal Tourism is promoting ‘Little Europe’ along the river Hooghly showcasing the settlement of European traders around its banks.  To develop the idea further, the State Government has been making repeated representations to the Centre for a tourist circuit along the riverbanks including Ganga by connecting the rivers of the state.

With an estimated cost of Rs 680 crore, the project will be co-sponsored by World Bank & Union Roads and Waterways Dept.  The State Transport Secretary recently had a meeting with representatives of World Bank and the Centre to give shape to this idea and have earmarked Katwa as one of the terminals of this project with Banaras, Allahabad, Gazipur and Sahebganj in other states.

The circuit will begin at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and end at Haldia, West Bengal.  The 12 rivers of West Bengal identified for this project are Mahananda, Ajoy, Jalangi, Damodar, Dwarka, Bakreshwar, Dwarkeshwar, Shilaboti, Kumari, Ichhamoti, Sundarbans Waterways and DVC Canal. A team of experts will do a study of these rivers and ensure that the constitutional and legal identity of the State remains intact.