Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that Universal Health Scheme (UHS) will be launched on May 1, 2021. Gehlot said that it will be named Mukhyamantri Chiranjeevi Yojana in his reply to the budget debate in the Assembly.
Key Points
- On February 24, in his budget speech, Gehlot had announced UHS with Rs 3,500 crore in the upcoming financial year wherein cashless health services up to Rs 5 lakh will be provided to all families in the state.
- Registration for those not included in the National Food Security Act (NFSA)/Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) beneficiary list will begin from April 1.
- The MLA Local Area Development (MLA LAD) fund has been increased from Rs 2.25 crore to Rs 5 crore annually, following a demand by both Congress and Opposition MLAs. However, when it will be implemented has not been informed yet.
- As per CM’ as of now far, appointments in 97,000 jobs have been given, while exams have been held/results declared for about 17,000 jobs and they will be given appointments soon. For another 37,000 posts, the advertisements have been issued and the exams will be conducted soon. For another 23,000, the process to issue advertisements is underway. This way, we are in the process of providing over 1.7 lakh jobs in just 2-2.25 years, and despite coronavirus.
- He claimed that when the Centre is now receiving the same revenue as 2019-20, then it is beyond understanding why you are decreasing the state’s share. Rajasthan’s share has decreased by 17 percent. In 2019-20 we received Rs 10,000 crore less, Rs 14,000 crore less in 2020-21, and for 2021-22, we have already been told that we will receive Rs 12,000 crore less: this totals to Rs 36,000 crore, Gehlot said.
The CM also announced a Back-to-Work scheme where 15,000 women will be covered in the next 3 years. Under the scheme, efforts will be made via the private sector to provide work from home job opportunities to trained women professionals and working women who left work to take care of family after marriage.