Hyderabad: In a major resolution, chief minister A Revanth Reddy Tuesday directed officers to increase Rs 10 lakh Aarogyasri well being cowl to all of the folks within the state by delinking the necessary norm of getting a white ration card to avail the scheme.
“Delink the ration card and prolong the scheme to all by finishing digital well being profile of all of the residents on the earliest,” the CM mentioned whereas addressing the district collectors’ convention on the secretariat.Up to now, solely these with white ration playing cards are getting free medical remedy as much as Rs 10 lakh in company hospitals underneath Aarogyasri. Nevertheless, there was no readability whether or not even the wealthy and above poverty line households could be lined underneath the Aarogyasri scheme. An announcement from the CMO mentioned Aarogyasri playing cards might be given to each citizen in Telangana, however sources instructed TOI that what was truly mentioned within the collectors convention was delinking ration card from the scheme, to allow the government give separate ration card just for rice and different proposed commodities by means of honest worth retailers, and an unique Aarogyasri card free of charge medical remedy.
The CM requested the officers to work out modalities for giving Aarogyasri well being card to each citizen. Although no additional particulars got by the CMO on funds required if Arogyasri is prolonged to all of the folks of the state, one of many components to delink ration playing cards from Aarogyasri is to make sure that solely the poor will take the meals safety playing cards (ration playing cards) for rice.
There are stories that a lot of above poverty line households are additionally holdingwhite ration playing cards to avail Aarogyasri profit. Such card holders don’t take Rs 2-per kg rice from ration retailers which is resulting in their quota of grains in large portions being bought in black market. That is inflicting a whole bunch of crores of rupees loss to the state govt.
Telling the collectors that they’re the “eyes and ears of this praja govt,” the CM mentioned they need to make subject visits recurrently to know what individuals are serious about improvement and welfare schemes, together with the six ensures, and report it again to the government. Don’t confine your self to your air-conditioned workplace chambers,” he mentioned.
The CM directed the collectors to guard govt lands, ponds and water our bodies from encroachment.
He mentioned incentives and salaries for docs working in rural areas needs to be elevated, functioning of govt colleges and hospitals improved and all Dharani-related grievances of the farmers needs to be solved by Aug 15.
The Congress govt’s precedence is to serve the folks by means of colleges, hostels and hospitals. The government is spending Rs 85,000 per thirty days on each poor scholar in govt faculty, he mentioned.
CM Revanth mentioned earlier there have been 10 districts with large geographical areas. “These 10 districts have been cut up into 33 districts for administrative comfort. There isn’t a distinction within the powers and duties of the district collectors, then and now. If the ten district collectors may do a beautiful job, why not 33 of them now. It’s your duty to instil confidence among the many folks about improvement and welfare schemes of the government,” he mentioned.
The CM needed praja palana seva kendras in each district the place folks can lodge their complaints and submit purposes to avail welfare schemes if that they had missed making use of for it within the first spherical.
Officers defined that thus far 5.89 lakh folks have utilized for Gruhajyoti (free energy provide as much as 200 models) and three.32 lakh folks for Rs 500 fuel cylinders at seva kendras alone.
It’s the key duty of the collectors to make sure that improvement and welfare schemes are balanced and take choices with humane contact, the CM mentioned.
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