Claim settlement is one of the most important services that an insurance company can provide to its customers. Insurance companies have an obligation to settle claims promptly. You will need to fill a claim form and contact the Bank in which you enrolled in the schemes. Department of Financial Services has formulated guidelines and process for hassle free insurance claim settlement under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY). We have developed a simple, easily understandable claim settlement process document. We request you to kindly learn and share this information with your personal and professional circle.

Claim Settlement Process under PMJJBY

Claim Settlement Process under PMSBY

Enhancing access to social protection and legal services is recognized globally as an effective strategy to increase the quality of life and reduce the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on people and families affected by HIV. It is also seen as a strategy to reduce HIV acquisition risk of socioeconomically marginalized key populations such as transgender people, men who have sex with men, women who sell sex, and people who inject drugs.

Evidence indicates that PLHIV and their households reduce consumption of essential items including food, borrow from moneylenders, work for extended hours, and face many additional hardships to cope with the economic burden accompanying chronic illness. This impedes their uptake of HIV prevention and treatment services. On the other hand, pervasive stigma and discrimination based on HIV status, marginalized genders and sexualities, sex work and/or drug use, prevent individuals from these communities from accessing schemes and entitlements, including identity cards, schemes for health, education, livelihood, pension and other services.

SAATHII_Svavritti team and its five implementing partners (NMP+, MNP+, NNP, KNP+ and RCDSSS) have developed a common minimum package of the most accessible and beneficial schemes specific to eight (Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and West Bengal) project implementing states that are relevant to the needs of PLHIV and key affected populations. The common minimum package contained in the Scheme Directory has central government and state government schemes. They cover health, education, child welfare, employment and livelihood, food and nutrition, pension and financial assistance, housing, financial inclusion, insurance and legal services.

POTENTIAL USE
The Scheme Directory will support existing care providers such as counselors at Integrated Counseling and Testing Centres (ICTCs) and Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centres (ARTCs), representatives of community-based organizations and positive networks, and NGOs working with PLHIV and key affected populations in disseminating the information on social protection schemes and guiding eligible applicants for submitting applications at the relevant government offices.

PFA Svavritti_Scheme Directory developed for Nagaland.

The four page IEC handout designed with the basic information on schemes (including health, education, livelihood, pension, housing), legal services in first two pages and third and fourth page to collect basic socio-demographic details of the target community member reached, informations facilitate to assess the community member’s need along with their written consent for follow-up with them. This was translated into six relevant local languages (i.e. Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil and Telugu) printed and disseminated among the community members. For the states of Manipur and Nagaland, English IEC material has been disseminated.

HINDI_FOUR_PAGE_IEC_HANDOUT

ENGLISH_FOUR_PAGE_IEC_HANDOUT

Please find attached project svavritti interim report 2014.

Best regards
Svavritti team
SAATHII

Link: https://jansoochna.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Svavritti_First_Interim_Narrative_Report_2014.pdf

Greetings from Svavritti Team

We hope you enjoy reading our quarterly newsletters. The third edition of our newsletter presents the “Comprehensive approach of social protection scheme access”, which the project aims at implementing in 2016.

The newsletter also contains major accomplishments of the project during the period October to December 2015.

Best regards
Svavritti team
SAATHII

Download link: Svavritti_Newsletter_edition_3_pdf

We hope you enjoyed reading the first edition of the Project Svavritti Newsletter dated 10 September 2015 from SAATHII. In this letter we will learn about major project activities, advocacy events, case studies and newly launched schemes by the central government.

Best regards
Svavritti team
SAATHII

Download link: Svavritti_Newsletter_edition_2_pdf

We are glad to release this first edition of project svavritti newsletter. We intend to make it a quarterly publication in sharing news and developments related to the implementation of the project and to facilitate cross-learning and best-practice sharing among five implementing partners and three state units. We will also highlight the achievements, innovative strategies, new scheme information and case studies. We are looking forward to your comments and suggestions.

Best regards
Svavritti team
SAATHII

Download link: Project Svavritti_Newsletter-edition_1.pdf

Following rural development minister Gopinath Munde’s idea of linking MGNREGA to development of villages, the Centre is set to insist that all states submit “district-level development perspective plans” to back their proposals of ‘labour budgets’ about the mandays of jobs to be generated in a time-period. They decide the funds to be released by the Centre.

“The perspective plan for a district will be for five years with annual parameters and targets and MGNREGA works will flow from this,” rural development secretary L C Goyal told TOI.

It will be a radical change from the present system of “labour budgets” which is riddled with poor selection of works for lack of scientific assessment of needs and resources.

The perspective plans would ensure that there is demand of assets and money flows into creating them rather than the present system in which money reaches the villages and then works are ordered arbitrarily like ditch-digging to spend the funds. This, sources said, is the major source of corruption.

The proposal comes in the wake of the BJP government scotching speculation that it would discontinue the job scheme and instead stating that it would look to make it more productive. Sources said due diligence on the need of assets will automatically limit the scheme’s ambit and put the funds to better use.

With the growing possibility of a realistic assessment of the assets required, the villages would be forced to think beyond ditch-digging about genuine works like agriculture, thereby bringing about convergence with other activities.

Goyal said, “This will help the local economy with special focus on agriculture.”

The perspective plan could be the silver bullet to check misuse of funds under the job scheme. While the MGNREGA Act lays down the need for such plans to ensure creation of durable community assets, sources admitted that an attempt in the direction was made in 2008 but had to be shelved because of complications as well as non-cooperation from the states.

The move is likely to fructify under a BJP government because it has been critical of the misuse of MGNREGA funds and also is not handicapped by the compulsion to continue it as the scheme’s author Congress.