{"id":58969,"date":"2019-09-06T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/?p=58969"},"modified":"2019-09-08T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:29:15","slug":"lakhs-of-poor-and-underprivileged-people-of-delhi-will-hopefully-benefit-soon-from-ayushman-bharat-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/lakhs-of-poor-and-underprivileged-people-of-delhi-will-hopefully-benefit-soon-from-ayushman-bharat-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakhs of poor and underprivileged people of Delhi will hopefully benefit soon from Ayushman Bharat Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakhs of poor and underprivileged people of Delhi will\nhopefully benefit soon from the hugely popular and successful Ayushman Bharat\nScheme after the Hon’ble Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Arvind\nKejriwal’s Delhi government in response to a Public Interest Litigation\n(PIL) filed for the implementation of the Scheme in Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delhi BJP Media In-Charge, Pratyush Kanth<\/strong> and\nLegal Cell Convener, Surya Prakash Khatri<\/strong> (Petitioners) filed a PIL\nbefore the Hon\u2019ble Delhi High Court for facilitating and implementation of\nAyushman Bharat (Healthy India), Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in order to\nprovide financial protection to the poor and deprived families all throughout\nthe National Capital Territory of Delhi. The petition was listed before the\nHon\u2019ble Delhi High Court Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C. Harishankar\nwherein, it was argued on behalf of the Petitioners that the Delhi Govt has\nbeen claiming that they have a better and comparable policy of their own due to\nwhich they have not been implementing Ayushman Bharat Scheme within the NCT of\nDelhi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Petitioners further argued that no such policy of\nDelhi Govt. exists and has been implemented so far and have categorically made\na request to the Court to call upon the Delhi Govt. to produce a copy of the\nsaid policy, if it actually exists. In view of the arguments advanced, the\nCourt appreciating the gravity of the situation was pleased to issue Notice to\nthe Delhi Govt. to file a response and put forth their stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ayushman Bharat Scheme launched by the Hon\u2019ble Prime\nMinister Narendra Modi, which targets to provide financial protection to 10.74\nCrore poor and vulnerable families (approx. 50 Crore beneficiaries), has been a\ngreat success all across the country. However, it is surprising that the\nresidents and inhabitants of NCT of Delhi have been consciously deprived of the\nbenefits of the said Scheme, which is in clear violation of the Fundamental\nRights of the citizens of NCT of Delhi as guaranteed under the Constitution of\nIndia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a matter of fact that, altogether, 34 States and\nUnion Territories have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central\nGovernment to implement the Ayushman Bharat Scheme and lakhs of people are\navailing and enjoying the benefits of the Central Govt\u2019s scheme all across the\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Petitioners have apprised the Court that the\ninhabitants and residents of Delhi have been deprived of the comprehensive\nbenefits of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, which includes but are not limited to\nthe following:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Reduction\nin financial burden of the State to a large extent by contribution of funds and\nresources by the Central Govt.;<\/li>
  2. Health\nInsurance cover of up to Rs.5 Lacs per family per year;<\/li>
  3. No\ncap on family size and age of members;<\/li>
  4. Establishment\nof 1,50,000 Health and Wellness Centres to bring the healthcare system closer\nto the homes of people;<\/li>
  5. Free\ntreatment available at public and empanelled private hospitals;<\/li>
  6. Cashless\nand paperless access to quality healthcare services;<\/li>
  7. Hospitals\ncannot deny treatment and are not allowed to charge any additional money from\nbeneficiaries;<\/li>
  8. State\nbeneficiaries to take treatment benefits at any empanelled hospital across the\ncountry;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    and many more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If the Delhi Govt. joins the Ayushman Bharat Scheme,\nlike all other states, Delhi can also have more medical infrastructure which\nwill help the poor strata of the society in getting free medical aid.\nAdditionally, being a centrally supported scheme, a citizen can avail medical\nfacilities all over the country under the said Scheme from various hospitals\nsituated all over the country. If Delhi also adopts the Scheme, various\nhospitals of the city (including empanelled private hospitals) will come under\nthe purview of the Scheme and hence the horizon of the free medical facility\nScheme will extend to more people. However, instead of availing the additional\nfacilities offered by the Central Govt., the Delhi Govt. has been providing\ncryptic and superfluous reasons for non-implementation of the Ayushman Bharat\nScheme and thereby, depriving the inhabitants and residents of Delhi of the\nextensive benefits of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Lakhs of poor and underprivileged people of Delhi will hopefully benefit soon from the hugely popular and successful Ayushman Bharat Scheme after the Hon’ble Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi government in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed for the implementation of the Scheme in Delhi. Delhi BJP Media In-Charge, Pratyush Kanth and Legal Cell Convener, Surya Prakash Khatri (Petitioners) filed a PIL before the Hon\u2019ble Delhi High Court for facilitating and implementation of Ayushman Bharat (Healthy India), Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in order to provide financial protection to the poor and deprived <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58971,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58969\/revisions\/58971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}