pune the pune municipal corporation pmc is exploring the option of crosschecking the income of beneficiaries under the urban poor health schemethe civic body will send the proposal to the income tax department for verifying the income of individuals to check if they fall under the urban poor category any citizen with less that rs2 lakh annual family income can avail the benefits under the scheme the move intends to ensure that people do not take undue advantage of the scheme we are making sure that eligible beneficiaries get the benefit of this scheme options like cross verifying income from the income tax department are being explored said ashish bharati head of pmcs health departmenta number of steps including introduction of generic medicines and giving additional funds for the scheme have been taken to widen the reach of the scheme