Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday that 75 lakh people, including 22 lakh state government employees and pensioners as well as their dependents, will benefit from the Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Rajya Karmachari Cashless Chikitsa Yojana.
Launching the scheme at Lok Bhawan, Yogi said here on Thursday that it has been a long-pending demand and Uttar Pradesh is the first state to start the scheme. He added that it would solve the problem of medical treatment of all the needy government employees, pensioners and their dependents. On the occasion, Yogi also distributed health cards, which will provide insurance cover up to Rs 5 lakh annually under the scheme to 10 employees. He said that the amount could even be increased in certain cases, if need be.
Yogi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi accorded top priority to the health of people and launched the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana, which gave health insurance coverage of Rs five lakh to Antyodaya families while this scheme will cover the state government employees.
Describing government employees as part of the family who played a vital role in taking government’s schemes to the ground, Yogi urged them to work as a team to serve people and see to it that a common man did not have to visit their tables repeatedly to get a genuine work done.
Criticising the approach of some employees to even treat a possible solution as a problem, the CM said: “A common man’s blessings and curses matter a lot. A good worker is remembered even after decades of his service while those indulging in wrong practices have to suffer humiliating transfers at the fag end of their careers and people celebrate it”, he said.
“If UP emerged as a model to emulate during the Covid pandemic, it was because we worked as a team. If we continue to work as a team, Uttar Pradesh can achieve many milestones of development in future. During the pandemic when states were laying off employees, we ensured that no jobs were lost and people got their salaries and pensions on time,” the CM said.
The chief minister said that the state government left no stone unturned to ensure that the 25 crore people of the state were not affected by the pandemic. “We did not shut down markets and industries so that people could continue to earn their living amidst constraints caused by the pandemic. Besides, health workers as well as Anganwadi and ASHA workers did a commendable job in helping us tackle Covid by reaching out to patients and their families,” he added.
Also present on the occasion were Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak and Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra among others.