“Those associated with the anti-India, separatist and corrupt ecosystem in Jammu and Kashmir are worried these days as the Central government and the J&K administration have left no space for them to breathe, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said at an event after the inauguration of Apsara Road high street in Gandhi Nagar on Friday evening.
Referring to an article published on a news portal on the Union Territory administration awarding a multi-crore insurance contract to a private company under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana by ignoring advice by its own departments, Sinha, without naming anybody, said the “writer of the article was himself an active part of the separatist ecosystem’’.
“There were three ecosystems – corrupt, separatist and anti-India ecosystems in J&K. Those associated with these ecosystems are worried and getting pained as they know that the Government of India and J&K will not provide them any oxygen,’’ he said. He denied any kind of irregularities in the implementation of the PMJAY scheme, saying that the government paid Rs982 crore premium at the start of the scheme. The private company has so far distributed Rs 1,228 crore to the patients and as many as 5.67 lakh patients have been treated under the scheme so far, he pointed out.
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Barring J&K, there is no state or UT in the country where every family has been provided health insurance under the PMJAY, he added. “If poor people are treated free of cost, they get pained,’’ Sinha said, adding “they get pained even if we give five marla land to the poor people, or talk of waiving off the electricity charges”.
Meanwhile, the state health agency, too, rubbished the charges of irregularities claiming that the article was ‘misleading’ and was aimed at “tarnishing the reputation of AB-PMJAY Sehat scheme in Jammu and Kashmir’’.
A New Delhi based news portal had recently, quoting a letter by an AGUMUT cadre IAS officer, Ashok Parmar, chairman of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, J&K, seeking a probe by CBI and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, had published that the UT administration headed by L-G Manoj Sinha, had ignored the advice of the finance and law departments and had amended a multi-crore contract midway to favour a private insurance company.
