TRINAMOOL CONGRESS MLA and actor Kanchan Mullick has triggered an argument over the ‘submission’ of a hospital invoice of Rs 6 lakh for reimbursement to the West Bengal Meeting on Tuesday, following the beginning of his baby at a personal hospital in Kolkata. Mullick, the TMC MLA for Uttarpara, married Srimayee Chatterjee in February this 12 months and the couple welcomed a child woman, on November 3, at a South Kolkata hospital that charged them Rs 6 lakh.
Based on Meeting sources, the MLA submitted the invoice to the Home’s well being affairs division with “all related info and paperwork” on Tuesday.
Declaring that each one paperwork associated to the health-related payments can be checked, Meeting Speaker Biman Banerjee stated, “I personally test all of the well being payments earlier than giving clearance. On this case too, I’ll undergo all of the paperwork myself. If any questions come up, I’ll name the hospital involved and discuss to the authorities.” There isn’t any higher restrict to the quantity for which MLAs can submit hospital payments and declare reimbursement, stated Meeting sources.
Requested about his invoice, Mullick stated on Tuesday, “From the place you got here to know concerning the invoice, find out about the remainder of the matter from there.” Nonetheless, TMC chief Kunal Ghosh stated Mullick has not submitted the medical invoice but.
“He went to the Meeting simply to investigate concerning the invoice the place the hospital charged Rs 2 lakh for the process and Rs 4 lakh as physician’s price. It’s very unlucky that everyone is saying he submitted a medical invoice of Rs 6 lakh,” he stated.
Up to now, ministers have confronted scrutiny over their health-related payments. Throughout the Left Entrance period, when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was CM, then minister Manav Mukhopadhyay confronted a backlash for claiming Rs 30,000 for spectacles. After the TMC authorities got here to energy in 2011, the then girls, baby and social welfare improvement minister Savitri Mitra submitted a invoice of Rs 1 lakh for spectacles. She returned the funds after an argument snowballed over the invoice.
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