Muscat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday promoted the brand new Nationwide Well being Safety Scheme referred to as Ayushman Bharat introduced on this 12 months’s Union Finances in an tackle to the Indian diaspora in Oman.

“In our Finances this 12 months, we did one thing that drew the world’s consideration,” Modi mentioned to hundreds of cheering expatriate Indians on the Sultan Qaboos Stadium right here quickly after his arrival right here on the third and final leg of his three-nation tour of West Asia and the Gulf.

“For 10 crore poor households of India, which interprets into 40-50 crore beneficiaries, we introduced the Ayushnman Bharat scheme.

“Every household coated beneath this scheme will get free medical therapy price as much as Rs 5 lakh (per 12 months),” Modi mentioned.

At the same time as he mentioned that individuals have to be questioning what Ayushman Bharat was all about, his consideration was drawn by a comment from any individual within the viewers and he mentioned: “Sure, newspapers in India name it Modicare.”

Ayushman Bharat is envisaged because the world’s largest government-funded healthcare programme.

Modi mentioned that beneath different comparable schemes, the poor are being given life insurance coverage at a premium of 90 paise or Re 1 per thirty days.

“As a chaiwala, I do know that you could’t actually have a cup of tea for 90 paise,” he mentioned, including that round Rs 2,000 crore have been disbursed in opposition to claims beneath these schemes.

The Prime Minister mentioned that although governments have come and gone in India, bureaucrats have remained the identical as additionally the system, however adjustments have come to be seen.

“In the present day banks can’t push back poor individuals,” he mentioned. “In the present day authorities officers are knocking on the doorways of poor individuals’s properties providing gasoline connections. Our authorities is engaged on offering free electrical energy to the poor.”

In a speech that comes forward of the final elections in India subsequent 12 months, Modi mentioned that within the final 4 years no person requested “how a lot did Modi take away”.

“In the present day, the Opposition, although not making allegations (of corruption) in opposition to us, are asking ‘Modiji, how a lot has are available’ whereas individuals used to ask beforehand (prior to the current NDA authorities) how a lot has gone away,” he mentioned.

Modi additionally praised the expatriate Indians in Oman, numbering over 800,000, for his or her contributions to its improvement. He mentioned that Indian and Omani authorities are continually in contact with one another for addressing grievances of Indians within the Gulf nation.

He additionally praised the Omani royal household for sustaining an in depth relationship with India.

Modi arrived right here on Sunday night after visiting Palestine and the United Arab Emiraes (UAE) and was to fulfill Oman’s Sultan Qaboos Bin Mentioned Al Mentioned later within the night.