India needs to develop federal institution like GST Council in healthcare, farm sector: Jaitley

29 Nov 2018 Evaluate

Highlighting successful implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India needs to develop federal institution like GST Council in the healthcare and farm sector, as he hopes that such a federal body in healthcare sector should face least resistance from states, since the welfare schemes would be implemented through the states, with Centre only coordinating it.

Jaitley pointed out that the states have their hospital, and the Centre is also establishing institutes of eminence across the country. The Centre has implemented Ayushman Bharat, and states also have similar schemes. Therefore, he expressed need to merge all these so that the benefit of these merged resources starts to benefit patient population of the country.

The minister also foresee the figure of beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat health scheme would pick-up in next 3-4 years, so that the awareness that such a facility is available and this would lead to a far greater realisation and patients going to these institutions and institutions also improving in terms of expertise.

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