Minister in charge of Mysuru district S.T. Somashekar, who is the Minister for Cooperation, announced in Mysuru on Monday that the Yeshasvini health insurance scheme will be re-launched on October 2 on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary.
In his address at the Independence Day celebrations after hoisting thel tricolor at Bannimantap stadium, Mr. Somashekar said the Yashaswini scheme was announced in the 2022 budget and ₹300 crore has been set aside for it. Already,₹100 crore has been released since the scheme assures healthcare to the farmer cooperatives. Guidelines in this regard are being prepared and the scheme will be reintroduced on October 2.
He said a sum of ₹360 crore corpus had been released to the Nandini Milk Samruddhi Cooperative Bank that was announced in the budget for improving the financial status of milk producers and the milk producers’ cooperative societies. “This is the first such bank for the milk producers,” he claimed.
