Every week after the Supreme Courtroom reprimanded the federal government, the Ministry of Street Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Monday notified the cashless remedy scheme for street accident victims in the course of the “golden hour”. In response to the gazette notification, the accident sufferer shall be entitled to cashless remedy for an quantity as much as Rs 1.5 lakh at any designated hospital underneath the Cashless Therapy of Street Accident Victims Scheme, 2025, which got here into drive on Might 5, 2025.
Going ahead, any street accident sufferer who doesn’t have insurance coverage shall be supplied free remedy of as much as Rs. 1.5 lakh. The principles of the scheme are but to be notified.
The Central authorities underneath Part 162(2) of the Act was required to border a scheme to offer cashless remedy to motor accident victims in the course of the “golden hour”. Part 2(12A) of the Act defines “golden hour” because the interval of 1 hour following a traumatic harm when immediate remedy has the very best chance of stopping the sufferer’s demise.
The scheme is critical since street accidents and fatalities are on the rise within the nation and fast medical assist can save many lives.
All about Cashless Therapy of Street Accident Victims Scheme, 2025
“Any individual being a sufferer of a street accident arising out of using motorcar, occurring on any street, shall be entitled to cashless remedy in accordance with the provisions of this Scheme. The sufferer shall be entitled to cashless remedy at any designated hospital for an quantity as much as Rs 1,50,000 per sufferer for a most interval of seven days from the date of such accident,” reads the notification.
It additionally says that the designated hospital has to manage medical remedy to the sufferer instantly on the sufferer being delivered to the hospital. The notification additional mentioned that the remedy underneath this scheme at a hospital aside from a delegated hospital shall be for stabilisation functions solely and shall be as specified by the rules.
The State Street Security Council has been designated because the nodal company for the implementation of the scheme. The council will coordinate with the Nationwide Well being Authority (NHA) for adoption and utilisation of the portal for onboarding of designated hospitals, remedy of victims and fee to the designated hospital for remedy.
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The company will even coordinate with the State Well being Company to designate hospitals underneath the Scheme for offering remedy, along with the hospitals empanelled underneath the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, as specified by the NHA.
How will hospitals be paid underneath this scheme
The scheme additionally offers for the steps to be adopted for fee to the hospitals. “After discharge of the sufferer underneath the scheme, the designated hospital or such different hospital offering stabilisation remedy shall elevate a declare for fee of the price of remedy bundle on the portal, in such method and together with such paperwork as specified by the State Well being Company,” reads the notification.
In response to part 8(3) of the Act, the State Well being Company shall both approve, in full or partially, or reject the declare, in full or partially. It would file the rationale on the portal and make it accessible to the designated hospital as nicely.
In response to the scheme, the Centre will arrange a steering committee for monitoring the scheme’s implementation. The committee shall be headed by Secretary, MoRTH and CEO, NHA. Members will embody Further Secretary, MoRTH; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Residence Affairs; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare; Secretary Normal, Normal Insurance coverage Council, amongst others.
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“The steering committee shall meet at the least twice in a yr, at such time, date and at such place because the chairperson might, infrequently, specify on this behalf. The steering committee might search data from any State Street Security Council or any entity or officer concerned within the implementation of the scheme for the aim of monitoring the implementation of the scheme. The implementation of the scheme in every state or Union territory shall be monitored by the respective State Street Security Council,” in response to the Gazette notification.
In response to MoRTH information, in 2023 over 4.80 lakh street accidents happened within the nation which resulted in over 1.72 lakh folks fatalities. When put next with the 2022 information on street accidents, the crashes have elevated by 4.2 per cent and there is a rise of two.6 per cent in fatalities. Over 4.61 lakh street accidents and over 1.68 lakh fatalities happened in 2022.
Final week, a bench of Justices A S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan pulled up the Secretary, MoRTH, looking for to know why the federal government was but to inform the scheme underneath Part 162(2) of the Motor Autos Act, 1988.
“Individuals are dying in street accidents. You might be developing enormous highways however individuals are dying there as a result of there is no such thing as a facility. There isn’t any scheme for golden hour remedy. What’s using developing so many highways?”, Justice Oka informed the Secretary, who appeared earlier than it final Monday.