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Popularising
Health Insurance In Rural Areas
Around 70 per cent of India’s population, live in villages.
Of these, less than 2 per cent are insured. Though the rural
health insurance market is huge, it has so far remained untapped.
Recently, IRDA has constituted a committee to chalk out a
plan for spreading health insurance in rural areas. Various
Micro-Health insurance schemes are to be studied. Around 25
such schemes are run in rural India, most of them attached
to Micro-Finance Institutions. Falaknaaz Syed briefs you about
the issues that the IRDA committee will address and some prominent
rural health insurance schemes running in the country.
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