Budget is not always vote bank politics, it’s duty to serve people, says CM Gehlot

From P1… z Perhaps what happens is that when a person goes to hospitals they face hurdles and perhaps you have removed those hurdles in this budget?

Secondly, the Nirogi Rajasthan scheme was started right after we came to power, so that the entire state stays healthy and soon after Corona pandemic hit us. The Nirogi Rajasthan scheme is only in government hospitals since private hospitals do not allow OPD, while Chiranjeevi scheme is provided in 800 private hospitals and it is already there in government hospitals. Three and a half crore people have been treated in government hospitals so far. Medicines are free, tests are free, MRI free, CT Scan free, everything is free. A scheme like ours wouldn’t be there anywhere else in the world. Moreover, Chiranjeevi Scheme has accidental insurance also, which was of five lakh rupees earlier. We observed that if a family meets with an accident, two or three people may succumb and if one person from another family dies in the same accident, he or she gets five lakh whereas the family also gets the same amount. So we decided to increase the accidental insurance to ten lakh rupees. This is how we keep everything under consideration. Another aspect is that the people who are getting admitted, their medical expenses from five days before being admitted to fifteen days after they are discharged will be born by the state government. We have looked at everything minutely. No one can think of these things. Unfortunately neither do people study, nor do they seek information about it.

See hurdles would be there as some people engage in ‘badmashi’, some people help, some try to realise more and claim the operation to be wrong. These complaint will come. But what needs to be understood is that for example there is Ayushman Bharat, which is limited to those who are under the socio-economic census carried out in UPA government. People don’t understand this. I have seen that in other states its coverage is 20 percent or 30 percent, in Gujarat it is 42 percent. But in Rajasthan, our scheme is for all the Rajasthanis. This is a huge thing. It is not limited be it rich or poor or middle class. About ninety percent people have been registered. And remaining are those who don’t know about it yet or are extremely poor, for them we try as to why haven’t we reached till there. You will be surprised to know that I have directed that if someone has not got the card made of Chiranjeevi Yojna and the person falls ill and gets admitted to hospital, the information about this will immediately be given to the Collector and the Collectors, even if the form hasn’t been filled and the said person isn’t under coverage, even then the Collector would put them under coverage and their treatment will start. So even if no one is covered under this scheme, then too we will provide treatment to them. z A similar masterstroke has been played as regards to free electricity to farmers upto 2,100 units to households. How important and impactful is this step?

State Govt transfers

155 RAS officers

Jaipur (FIB): The State Government on Saturday, transferred 155 RAS officers. In a late night order, the Personnel Department released the list of the shifted officers.

RAS Om Prabha’s transfer to the post of ADM Pratapgarh on November 7, 2022 was cancelled. Tibbi SDO Shiva

See, after covid-19 and owing to the inflation, we cant even fathom what the poor have to go through. People’s backs have broken, the ache din have left people with no jobs, they have become unemployed, the situation is grim. So we made social security our theme. Education, medical services and social security. We are giving pension to one crore individuals. I requested Prime Minister that the way Dr. Manmohan Singh ji and Sonia Gandhi ji made laws in the Parliament like RTI, MNREGA, RTE and Food Security, similarly you should also make a law that everyone across the nation should get the same pension. As of now every state government does it according to its situation. You will be surprised to know that the government of India gives 200-300 rupees to about two million people. The Union govt is spending three hundred crores, we are spending nine thousand crores on pen sions. We want that a scheme should be made and law should be passed in Parliament which will give relief to everyone forever. If the allowance increases, then the pension can also increase and a sys tem can be made for that. Who are these peo ple getting pen sions? They are elderly, differentlyabled and windows who are get ting this benefit. It is our duty to give them relief in old age. So this facility we provided and the Govern ment of India should also come forward. z How do you see the Right to Health Bill issue, specially since doctors appear to be a little wary of it? Well, it seems that some people have been troubled since free treatment is being provided to people. But the private doctors are on package and they should cooperate and we will remove their pened in Rajasthan and the victim may be from anywhere in the nation, they will be given treatment immediately at the nearest hospital for minimum 72 hours and later the person would be shifted to government hospital and by then the person’s family members will come to know, but at least treatment should be started to save the person’s life. They said that if someone comes gency. So we assured them that their concerns are relevant and we will rectify. We will mention that if an accidental case comes then they will have to. We will honour their emotions and they too should cooperate and honour government’s wishes. This initiative, I would say, is non existent not only in any other state of the nation, but I would say it is not there anywhere in the world. No nation in the world would have a scheme where everything would be free. Obama care started by then President Obama of United States has not been entirely successful. Rajasthanis should feel proud that their government has given them this scheme. If anyone in a family comes down with cold and flu, on average 4005-- rupees are spent for treatment, and we are treating people even if it costs lakhs of rupees. So private sector needs to change its viewpoint and come forward to support the govern-

Indira Ji once said that even after her death, every drop of her blood will provide strength to this country and this applies to me also.

In the budget, you announced gas cylinders for merely Rs 500. When Ujjawala Scheme was started it was said that women will not have to revert to old ways of cooking, but then the price of cylinders under this scheme were increased and women went back to the same old way of cooking on choolah. Do you think your announcement will be a boon for such

PM Narendra Modi should be grateful to Rajasthan government that the scheme started by him, where cylinders were being given for 400 rupees with one free cylinder but that has now reached 1040 rupees per cylinder, and as a result those cooking gas were not being used, so we have now started those same choolhas. The scheme was of union government and now we are supplementing it by giving cylinders in 500 rupees to BPL and others, then he should be happy and come forward to support the state government. In fact, he should say that in all the states, the government of India will provide gas cylinders to the poor consumers of Ujjawala Yojna in just five hundred rupees. z Have you taken over another agenda of BJP by announcing Rs 40,000 grant for bovine rearers who lost their cattle to lumpy skin disease?

No it is not about hijacking anyone’s agenda. If a farmer’s milch animal dies due to lumpy, you can imagine how it would play on them. We asked the Union government to declare lumpy skin disease as a calamity like Covid. The central government would have given the money, but they are not doing it. So we said that we will give money. We will give forty thousand rupees so that the farmer has at least some relief. Moreover the animal insurance that we have announced is far more impactful than this compensation. The government will get the animal insured. We have said that two milch animals per family will be insured by the state government so that farmers and cattle rearers can get forty thousand rupees per cattle. Also, we are giving five rupee per litre for milk to cattle rearers, how many states are giving this?

We are looking after farmers and those engaged in husbandry. z What benefit will the employees of Boards and Corporations get from OPS since now you have increased its ambit?

This is also a security. An employee works for thirty five years and they would naturally think what will happen to them after retirement. The money being deposited in New Pension Scheme (NPS) all gets invested in the share market and mutual funds. No one knows what will be the situation of mutual funds and the market in the future and based on that the person will get their pension. So how will the person’s future be secured? I remember thirty five years ago, I deposited twenty thousand rupees in SBI’s mutual fund, but I received a paltry sum because the fund went down. This investment depends on market and my experience in this field is also helping me now. So why should I make the employees get dependent on NPS when the future is uncertain and no one knows what will happen to them. And when people have some insecurity, then some people engage in corruption too. Secondly, there is OPS in Army but not in BSF. Recently Delhi High Court said that OPS will have to be given to all para military forces. How can there be difference? CAG has said that so many years have passed but its rules and regulations have not been formed. Thirdly judicial commission has said that they will not accept it. High court judges would get OPS and other would get NPS. There are critics of my scheme and they are honourable citizens of the nation, I respect them but I would like to ask them that if such is the situation then answer them what will happen.

Chowdhary was put on APO. Addl charge of DSO Baran was given to RAS Rajat Kumar Vijayvargiya. More than 100 SDOs have been shifted while 5 ADMs were transferred. Posting given to two officers who became RAS after being promoted from Tehsildar service.

More names to be added in list of AICC members Jaipur (FIB): There is an inside story about the list of 50 AICC members from Raj. Last time the names of 72 people were sent to AICC & this time also the list of almost same number of names was sent. State in-charge Sukhjinder Randhawa & PCC Chief GS Dotasra were asked to shorten the list. There are reports that 3 to 5 more names will be added to list. Many MLAs have been calling Dotasra after list was released.

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Abhishek Shrivastava

Jaipur: For the first time in the history of Jaipur Development Authority (JDA, the preparation for review of cadre strength is being made comprehensively. The proposal for review was prepared on the instructions of JDC Ravi Jain.

UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal gave green signal to the proposal and the proposal has been sent for approval to the Finance Department. Total number of posts are to

JDA’s cadre strength being reviewed

manship of JDA secretary Ujjwal Rathore and the proposal was made according to the recommendations of the committee.

Various development works related to JDA will not get stuck due to lack of manpower after cadre strength review.

be increased from 1,961 to 2,306 and re-determination of cadre strength is proposed in all cadres. The unemployed youth will get opportunities for recruitment in JDA and there will be shortage of man power in development work and various works. The JDA was established on August 5, 1982 and after that the assessment has not been done so widely. The cadre of all cadres of JDA has not been rescheduled. The biggest reason for rescheduling is the rapidly growing size of the city.

The committee was formed under the chair-

New recruitment will be possible on the increased posts of JDA service and more opportunities will be available on ex-cadre posts. The personnel coming on deputation will get more opportunities.