Bima Sugam

About Bima Sugam

• It is like an e-commerce platform where insurance companies can sell their products.
• It onboards all the companies that offer life and non-life insurance products under one roof.
• It aims to provide an 'end-to-end' digital journey to all policyholders like from buying insurance policies to renewals to claim settlement to portability to grievance redressal
• This marketplace serves as a one-stop solution for all insurance stakeholders, including customers, insurers, intermediaries and agents, thereby, promoting transparency, efficiency, and collaboration across the entire insurance value chain
• It will be a unified platform, which will be integrated with various govt databases, insurers, intermediaries, insurance repositories, etc., for fetching customer details, providing product information, and buying and servicing Insurance policies.
• Bima Sugam aims to eliminate the paperwork as you can simply have your policy in an electronic format.
• Customers can view all their policies — life, health and non-life insurance — in one single application or window under Bima Sugam.

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Source: Bima Sugam approved: Insurance policies set to be more affordable; buying policies, claim-settlement to be easier