Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the time has come to provide comprehensive social security to the needy, helpless and deprived people like developed countries to facilitate healthy and dignified living and to bridge the gap of richness and poverty.
The Chief Minister Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme is a historic step of the Rajasthan government in this direction, which will free the people of the state from worrying about the huge expense of treatment.
Gehlot was inaugurating the Chief Minister Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme and free vaccination for the age group of 18 to 45 years from the video conference on Saturday. The Chief Minister launched the website of the scheme chiranjiv.rajasthan.gov.in.
During this time, he interacted with the youth in the age group of 18 and above, who were vaccinated in Jaipur, Ajmer and Jodhpur. On this occasion, policy documents of Chiranjeevi Yojana were also distributed to selectedbeneficiaries of these three districts.
Others should also consider such a scheme The Chief Minister said that Rajasthan is the leading state in the country providing universal health insurance with the aim of providing health protection to every state after free medicine and screening scheme.
He said that during the UPA government, a rights-based era was started to promote social security in the country under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi.
At that time, the countrymen were given right to programs like Right to Information, Right to Education, Food Security and Mahatma Gandhi NREGA. A program like MNREGA has proved to be a boon for the poorer class in the Covid crisis.