JANASREE BHIMA YOJANA
Hon. Union Finance Minister in his budget speech 2008-09 announced a new insurance scheme “Janashree Bima Yojana” (JBY), a Death-cum-Disability Insurance Scheme for the members of all women self-help groups’ credit linked to the banks. The objective of the scheme is to provide life insurance cover to the rural and urban poor persons living below poverty line and marginally above poverty line.