Published on Mon, Aug 18 at 13:49
Bartronics India Limited, the leading provider of end-to-end-solutions based on AIDC technologies, has been awarded a prestigious contract worth Rs 400 crore for providing Smart Cards under the RSBY (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana) Scheme by ESIC (Employees State Insurance Corporation).
The scheme envisages to cover 6, 39,000 villages in 609 districts throughout the country. In the district-wise operation, approximately 100,000 beneficiaries-families would be covered in each district.
The concept envisages providing SCOSTA standard smart card solution to the target clients duly loaded with a treatment value for one year for enabling them and their family members to avail of the treatment at any ESI Hospital or Hospitals with which ESI has tied-up arrangements within that monetary ceiling.
The Smart Card would contain individual and his family data including bio-metric in a 32K micro-chip embedded in the card along with the treatment value for the entire family. When the individual would take treatment in the Hospital, the spent up amount would be deducted from the Smart Card through appropriate reader-writer devices.
For the purpose of the whole operation, it is contemplated that Bartronics will carry out operations such as data-capturing, data-uploading, smart card-preparation / issue, etc. and provide / install card reader-writer at the specified ESI Hospitals or Hospitals with which ESI has tied-up arrangements maintain it for certain / specified period, provide training to ESI personnel in operations and other related assistance, as may be required. Bartronics will also integrate the database / operation with the main ERP being planned under the IT plan of ESIC and render all necessary technical coordination with the integrator at appropriate stage.
The smart card solution may also be extended to any other type of ESI beneficiaries (existing / future).
Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), a statutory Autonomous Body, under the Union Ministry of Labour & Employment, is the implementing agency of pioneering Social Security Scheme in India providing social security protection to over 10 million covered industrial workers and their family members all over the country. 144 ESI Hospitals, 1388 dispensaries, over 300 diagnostic centres and over 1900 empanelled Insurance Medical Practitioners provide medical care to all the beneficiaries without any cost ceiling and on need basis
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