Ayushman Bharat, officially the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, completed eight years in September 2026. It is counted among the world's largest government funded health assurance schemes, offering eligible families a health cover of five lakh rupees a year for secondary and tertiary hospital care.
The headline numbers
According to figures cited by the Prime Minister and reported by government and news outlets around the scheme's anniversary, Ayushman Bharat now covers more than 60 crore people. The scheme's primary health infrastructure, the Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (the renamed health and wellness centres that anchor the programme in villages and towns), have together recorded more than 500 crore patient visits since the programme began.
What five lakh rupees of cover means in practice
For a family without savings or insurance, a serious hospital admission can mean selling land or borrowing at high interest. Ayushman Bharat was built to close that gap for the poorest forty percent of Indian households, along with other defined categories of workers and families, by letting them walk into an empanelled hospital and receive treatment without paying at the counter.
Why this belongs here
NaMo Temple's Seva Schemes page lists Ayushman Bharat among the policies of the Modi years that reached ordinary households directly. This article exists to go one level deeper into one of them, with figures that can be checked against the government's own reporting rather than left as a single line in a list.