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Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana: Provides Death and Disability Cover to Persons Between the Age Group of 18 Yrs To 59 Yr

7-8-2015
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Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY) is a Government of India Social Security Scheme administered through Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) that provides Death and Disability cover to persons between the age group of 18 yrs to 59 yrs, under 48 identified vocational/ occupational groups /rural landless households. It is a group insurance scheme implemented through a Nodal Agency such as a Central Ministry/ Department; State Government /Union Territory or other institutionalized arrangements/ registered NGO. The AABY provides insurance cover for a sum of ₹ 30,000/- on natural death, ₹ 75,000/- on death due to accident, ₹ 37,500/- for partial permanent disability (loss of one eye or one limb) due to accident and ₹ 75,000/- for total permanent disability (loss of two eyes or two limbs or loss of one eye and one limb) due to accident. The Scheme also provides an add-on-benefit, wherein Scholarship of ₹ 100 per month per child is paid on half-yearly basis to a maximum of two children per member, studying in 9th to 12th Standard. 

The total annual premium under the scheme is ₹ 200/- per beneficiary of which 50% is contributed from the Social Security Fund created by the Central Government and maintained by LIC. The balance 50% of the premium is contributed by the State Government / Nodal Agency / Individual, as the case may be. 

The State/UT-wise details of the total number of beneficiaries covered under AABY are given in Annexure A. 

Government of India has set up a Centralized Social Security Fund and Aam Admi Bima Yojana Scholarship Fund. The same is being administered by LIC. There is no State/UT-wise allocation of these funds. The due amounts required for settling Premium and Scholarships are debited from these funds. 

The outgo of these funds towards Payment of Premium & Scholarships settled during last three years and the current year are given as per Annexure B.

ANNEXURE A

STATE/UT-WISE AABY COVERAGE AS AT JUNE 2015

(no. of beneficiaries)

STATES

AABY Coverage 2014-15 as on 31.03.2015

Coverage upto 30.06.2015 for FY 2015-16

ANDHRA PRADESH

7704878

8297834

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

27695

27695

ASSAM

427595

440902

BIHAR

520926

559790

CHANDIGARH

5118

5425

CHHATTISGARH

1721516

1805631

DELHI

47746

49207

GOA

50221

50221

GUJARAT

897894

943617

HARYANA

109379

109514

HIMACHAL PRADESH

75772

77803

J & K

104814

122632

JHARKHAND

341829

365687

KARNATAKA

3117093

3418619

KERALA

1341006

1587547

MADHYA PRADESH

7145760

7146118

MAHARASHTRA

8098658

8109302

MANIPUR

29962

31198

MEGHALAYA

25727

25727

MIZORAM

4588

4758

NAGALAND

7617

10408

ORISSA

2123801

2511871

PUDUCHERRY

96636

102632

PUNJAB

1259911

1260386

RAJASTHAN

2024434

2058831

SIKKIM

2566

2623

TAMIL NADU

1277084

1405521

TELANGANA

2076886

2091294

TRIPURA

40804

40970

U.P

1312517

1315611

UTTRANCHAL

748170

750859

WEST BENGAL

437263

472016

A&N ISLAND

1399

1399

LAKSHDWEEP

203

203

DAMAN & DIU

202

202

DADRA & N HAVELI

482

482

ALL INDIA TOTAL

43208152

45204535

 ANNEXURE B

SOCIAL SECURITY FUND     (Amount in  Rs. Crore)

YEAR

OUT GO TOWARDS PREMIUM

(A)

(B)

2012-13

569.10*

2013-14

296.30

2014-15

340.76

2015-16

(As on 30.06.2015)

25.74

*in the year 2012-13 Scholarships under the erstwhile Janashree Bima Yojana (JBY) were being settled through Social Security Fund(SSF) for which the bifurcation is ₹ 422.22 Cr Premium outgo and ₹ 146.88 Cr Scholarship paid (Total ₹ 569.10 Cr) 

AABY SCHOLARSHIP FUND   (Amount in Rs. Crore)

YEAR

OUTGO TOWARDS AABY SCHOLARSHIP SETTLED

(A)

(B)

2012-13

119.39

2013-14

279.00

2014-15

274.96

2015-16 (As on 30.06.2015)

22.50

 This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today

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