The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Thursday issued notices to the Delhi Authorities and its well being division on a PIL petition looking for the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana within the nationwide capital.
The petition was moved by the seven BJP MPs of Delhi, together with senior advocate Bansuri Swaraj, who argued the matter earlier than the court docket of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora on Thursday.
Studying out an announcement made by former Union well being minister Mansukh Mandaviya in April, Swaraj quoted the minister as having acknowledged that “the Delhi authorities has been urged a number of instances to signal the MoU to avail the obtainable monetary help beneath the scheme nevertheless it has not but come ahead. If you’re actually apprehensive in regards to the well being of the folks of Delhi, simply come and signal this MoU and take Rs 2,406.77 crore for the folks of the town… A complete of 6,54,041 households (approx. 30 lakhs people) of the UT of Delhi are eligible beneath the Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY. Had the UT been a part of AB PM-JAY, it might have obtained Rs 47 crore per yr for scheme implementation”.
Whereas listening to the matter on Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela expressed shock and shock on the Delhi Authorities’s refusal to just accept support from the Centre amid its flailing well being infrastructure.
Mentioning that the scheme has been prolonged to everybody of 70 years of age and above regardless of their socioeconomic background, the petitioners have mentioned Delhi is the one Union Territory that has not applied the scheme, including that 33 states and UTs have adopted it.
The court docket will think about the matter subsequent on December 11.
The petitioner-MPs Bansuri Swaraj, Praveen Khandelwal, Ramvir Bidhuri, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Harsh Malhotra, Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Yogender Chandolia are additionally looking for the court docket’s route to the Delhi authorities, lieutenant governor and the Union well being ministry to take mandatory steps to make sure that Delhi residents are offered entry to healthcare beneath the scheme.
