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and their family members residing in the area covered by the scheme.An employee can opt out of the scheme and avail of the medicalfacilities provided by the employer of his spouse. If an employee or amember of his family covered under the Scheme falls ill at a place notcovered under CGHS, the treatment shall be admissible under CS(MA)Rules 44[1] .27.14 The medical facilities to the Central Government employees andtheir dependent family members are provided under the CentralGovernment Health Scheme in the following cities:Ahmedabad Ghaziabad Meerut AllahabadGurgaon Mumbai Bangalore GuwahatiNagpur Bhubaneshwar Hyderabad NoidaKolkata Jaipur Patna ChennaiJabalpur Pune Kanpur RanchiDelhi/New Delhi Faridabad LucknowThiruvananthapuram27.15 Definition of Family: ‘ Family’ means employee’s(i)Husband/Wife including more than one wife and alsojudicially separated wife.(ii)Parents and Stepmother. In the case of adoption, onlythe adoptive and not the real parents. If the adoptivefather has more than one wife, the first wife only.A female employee has a choice to include either her parents orher parents-in-law; option exercised can be changed only once duringservice.(iii)Children including legally adopted children, stepchildrenand children taken as wards subject to the followingconditions :SonDaughteris-Till he starts earning, irrespective of age limit.-Till she starts earning or gets married, whicheverearlier, irrespective of age-limit.Son suffering fromPermanent disability of anykind (physical or mental)-No age -limit.44[1]OM No.S.1101/6/92-CGHS Desk-CGHS(P) dated 4.8.94.Page 191 of 191