PM RAHAT Scheme has been approved by PM
Modi
¨
PM RAHAT Scheme has been
approved by PM Modi.
¨ PM RAHAT stands for Road
Accident Victim Hospitalisation and Assured Treatment.
¨
The scheme is designed to
support victims of road accidents.
¨
It provides cashless
medical treatment of up to one lakh 50 thousand per victim to eligible victims.
¨
The benefit is available
for accidents on any category of road and for a period of seven days from the
date of the accident.
¨
Road, Transport and
Highways Ministry said that hospitals will be reimbursed through the Motor
Vehicle Accident Fund.
¨
The programme was
launched at Seva Teerth in New Delhi on 14 February 2026.
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India records a large
number of road accident deaths every year.
¨ Many of these deaths are preventable with timely hospital admission.
¨ Studies show that nearly 50 percent of such deaths could be avoided with treatment within the first hour.
