Numbers to hospitals empanelled: CAG flags breaches in TMC government insurance scheme

5 min readKolkataJul 29, 2026 07:15 AM IST The TMC government headed by Mamata Banerjee rolled out Swasthya Sathi in February 2017 as a comprehensive group health insurance scheme, with families qualifying for it entitled to up to Rs 5 lakh per year. The Comptroller and Auditor General has said that “ineligible beneficiaries” may have got the benefit of the former Trinamool Congress government’s Swasthya Sathi scheme in West Bengal, with the enrolment under it “10 per cent higher” than for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the state. CAG reports are being published for the first time in four years in Bengal, with the BJP replacing the TMC in power. Twenty-eight of them have been tabled in the Assembly.The TMC government headed by Mamata Banerjee rolled out Swasthya Sathi in February