DIMAPUR — The Nagaland Health Protection Society (NHPS) has made Aadhaar linkage mandatory for Ayushman cards to avail benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) at empanelled hospitals.

More than 1.14 lakh Ayushman cards in Nagaland remain unlinked with Aadhaar, according to an analysis of beneficiary records in the Beneficiary Identification System (BIS), a DIPR report stated.

The NHPS has set November 30, 2026 as the deadline for completing the linkage.

The NHPS has advised all beneficiaries whose Ayushman cards were generated between 2018 and September 2022 to verify their Aadhaar linkage status.

Those whose cards are not linked have been advised to complete the process through the Card Generation (BIS) portal.

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Aadhaar linkage can be completed through the offices of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Common Service Centres (CSCs), Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs), card vendor agencies or any empanelled PM-JAY hospital.

The NHPS cautioned that failure to complete the linkage within the stipulated period may result in the disabling of the Ayushman card.

Beneficiaries whose cards are disabled may subsequently be required to undergo fresh e-KYC through the BIS portal.

The NHPS said that during the initial implementation of AB PM-JAY, from 2018 to September 2022, Ayushman cards could be generated without Aadhaar linkage for beneficiaries identified through the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) and Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) data sources.