Yashasvini scheme anniversary

Yashasvini Cooperative Farmers’ Health Care Scheme, launched in June 2003, has successfully completed 10 years benefiting lakhs of farmers in co-operative sector. The Yashasvini Cooperative Farmers’ Health Care Trust was formed under the principle “One for all and all for one” has made healthcare affordable to farmers in co-operative sector. The scheme started with a beneficiary contribution of Rs 60 per year in the beginning and the contribution amount was enhanced to Rs 210 for the year 2012-13. Yashasvini Trust had 16 lakh membership in 2003-04 and it has been almost doubled to 30.36 lakhs 35,814 people were treated as out patients and 9,047 had undergone surgery. In the first year itself under this scheme for which Rs 10.65 crore was spent. In 2012-13, 1.10 lakh farmers were treated as outpatients and 83,802 people have undergone surgeries.