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Spelling note<\/b><\/td>\nThe scheme is written both “Jan Arogya” and “Jana Arogya”, and many families still call the card the Biju Swasthya Kalyan card. The blog uses both names once so either search hits.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana (G-JAY), also searched as Gopabandhu Jana Arogya Yojana, is Odisha’s state health scheme. It gives all Odisha residents free treatment at government hospitals, with the state bearing the cost. Families with a G-JAY Smart Health Card, or an NFSA or SFSS ration card, also get cashless treatment of up to \u20b95 lakh per family per year at empanelled private hospitals. Women in the family get an additional \u20b95 lakh once the family limit is used up, which takes their total protection to \u20b910 lakh. The state merged G-JAY with Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY in January 2025, which widened the hospital network inside and outside Odisha. The card replaced the earlier Biju Swasthya Kalyan card. Because the scheme works at empanelled hospitals and in packages, a personal policy can add choice and extra cover on top. Helplines: 104 and 155369.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Odisha’s \u20b95 Lakh Health Cover, With a Second \u20b95 Lakh for Women: What G-JAY Covers, Who Gets It, and Where It Stops<\/b><\/h2>\n

The family wallet with a second drawer<\/b><\/h3>\n

Most health covers treat a family like a single wallet. One limit, one pool, and whoever falls ill first gets to spend it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Odisha’s scheme does something slightly different. The family gets a base cover of \u20b95 lakh a year. And once that is spent, the women of the family get a second drawer, with another \u20b95 lakh waiting inside. That is how the Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana can take a woman’s protection up to \u20b910 lakh in a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one more thing worth a pause. Treatment at government hospitals across Odisha is free for every resident, and the state carries the bill. The card matters when you step into a private empanelled hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scheme also has a history. The Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana began in 2018. It later became G-JAY, and in January 2025 the state joined it with the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, which opened up a much larger network of hospitals, inside and outside Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n

So this blog does three things. It explains how G-JAY works in plain words. It shows you how to get and use the Smart Health Card. And it is honest about where a government scheme ends and personal planning begins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting in Bengaluru while your mother in Berhampur keeps saying “the card is somewhere”? You have just been promoted to Chief Document Locator of the family, effective immediately.<\/span> Book a call<\/span><\/a> with us, and we will help you work out how G-JAY fits with whatever cover the family already has. Free advice, zero lectures.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana in Odisha?<\/b><\/h2>\n

G-JAY is Odisha’s state-sponsored health scheme. The Health and Family Welfare Department runs it. Its earlier avatar was the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, and the Odisha government signed an agreement with the National Health Authority in January 2025 to bring it together with Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY.<\/span><\/p>\n

The headline numbers are a base cover of \u20b95 lakh per family per year, with an extra \u20b95 lakh for women after the family limit is reached. On the national side, a reply in the Rajya Sabha in February 2025 put the PM-JAY package list at 1,961 procedures across 27 specialities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what the scheme offers, in short:<\/span><\/p>\n