India, Feb. 23 -- Among the first Cabinet approvals on Thursday under Delhi's newly elected chief minister, Rekha Gupta, is the implementation of the Narendra Modi government's flagship Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).

The AB-PMJAY was launched in 2018, and Delhi, West Bengal, and Odisha were the only states that had not adopted the scheme until now. Odisha came on board last year following a change in the state's political regime, and Delhi has now followed suit this year, also due to a shift in the state's power structure.

"The previous government had stalled the Ayushman Bharat scheme in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi implemented it across the country, and now we have approved it for Delhi," said the ...