Also, it is expected to cost the exchequer at least ₹3,350 crore (US$390 million) a year to cover the entire BPL population.

[7] The Indo-German Social Security Programme, created as part of a co-operation pact between the two countries is guiding this collaboration.

New age companies like Glocal Healthcare Systems, a company based out of Kolkata and funded by Tier I Capital Funds like Sequoia Capital and Elevar Equity are setting up State of Art Hospitals in Semi Urban - rural settings.

Increase in outpatient expenditure, hospitalization and medicines have compelled insurance companies to exclude several diseases out of their policies and thus making it not affordable for BPL families.

Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PMJAY) is proposed to subsume RSBY and provide an insurance cover of ₹0.5 million (US$5,800) each to 10 crore families.