BMC plans to gift health insurance for paying property tax
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to give health insurance of up to Rs 3 lakh for those citizens who have paid property tax this year.
A whopping property tax of Rs 2,156 crore has been collected this year, contributed by about 15 lakh owners of properties in Mumbai.
According to BMC these property tax payers go to private hospitals and nursing homes as they find government health sector unattractive, thus paying extra apart from the budget.
As per a draft proposal prepared by the BMC’s health department, middle class property tax payers may have to borrow money or sell assets to pay for private hospitals.
The scheme is called Shiv Arogya Suraksha Kaavach which aims at providing cashless cover of up to Rs 3 lakh to all family members of property tax payers.
Furthermore, the civic body is planning to include some of the private hospitals as well under this scheme.
The choice of hospitals, whether public or private, will be left to the patients. The private hospital will have the freedom to charge the patients as per their class.
The BMC Municipal Commissioner has stated that the scheme will be implemented this year after presenting the budget for 2013-14. The draft report of the scheme is prepared and will be examined for implementability in the budget year.
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