Context

• Now all senior citizens who have completed the age of 70 years or more can avail the benefit of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJ), under which they can also get their Ayushman card made.

Exam Related Facts:

• PM-JAY is the world's largest health insurance scheme fully funded by the government.
• Launched in February 2018, the scheme provides a sum insured of Rs 5 lakh per family for secondary care as well as tertiary care.
• The health benefit package covers surgery, medicine and daily treatments, cost of medicines and diagnostics.
• The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is an independent authority under the Constitution of India.
• It is the head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department and the principal patron of the public sector.
• Through this institution, the accountability of the government and other public authorities (spending public money) to the Parliament and State Legislatures is ensured and this information is given to the general public.
• The office of the Accountant General was established in the year 1858, the very year when the British took over the administrative control of India from the East India Company.
• In the year 1860, Sir Edward Drummond was appointed as the first Auditor General.
• The Auditor General was freed from government control under the Government of India Act, 1919 as the post was given statutory statu