<span style="color: #222222;">National Health Authority (NHA) is collaborating with various Ministries implementing Welfare Schemes to strengthen different aspects of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY). Ministry of Health in a statement said that integration with beneficiary Database under different schemes is aimed at enrichment of database for Implementation of AB PM-JAY.<br />''<br />''The Ministry said that the beneficiary database enrichment under AB PM-JAY would mean adding additional parameters to the database for ease of search. The majority of AB PM-JAY beneficiaries are also eligible for benefits under National Food Security Portal (NFSA). It said, NHA is working on integrating the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), 2011 beneficiary database with NFSA, which will enable beneficiaries to seek information regarding their entitlement under the AB PM-JAY using their ration card number.<br />''<br />''NHA is also working on a proposal to use Fair Price Shops or Ration shops for providing information related to the scheme and entitlement under the scheme to eligible beneficiaries. This will provide an additional avenue to beneficiaries along with the existing Common Service Center for card creation. This will make the beneficiary identification process very convenient.<br />''<br />''NHA  is mandated with the implementation of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana and it provides health assurance upto  5 lakh rupees per family per year, for secondary and tertiary care-related hospitalizations. </span><br />