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Andhra govt to launch Partial permanently disability due Ins & MediClaim Policies," Gahlot said
to an accident (Age: 18-70 ) = Rs in a tweet. The chief minister had in
scheme providing free in-
1.5 lakh November last year set up a 13 mem-
surance to 1.41 crore The Andhra Pradesh government has ber committee, headed by the Su-

workers in unorganised assured that the claim amount will be preme Court Bar Association president
Rakesh Kumar Khanna, to recommend
sector deposited into the linked bank account ways for utilisation of the fund for
within 15 days of the claim being
Andhra Pradesh's YSRCP government is made. welfare of advocates.
going to launch its flagship 'YSR BIMA'
The committee had recommended
scheme.
Delhi Govt approves over group mediclaim policy of Rs 5 lakh and
The scheme will cover 1.41 crore 'Pri- a life insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh for
mary Bread Earners' of Below Poverty Rs 40 crore to give insur- each lawyer, besides setting up e-li-
Line (BPL) families, belonging to the ance to lawyers braries and creche facilities in district
unorganised sector. The state govern- The Delhi govt has approved over Rs courts through the fund. According to
ment will single-handedly be funding 40 crore to provide medical insurance the Bar Council of Delhi, 37,135 law-
the entire insurance scheme. yers are registered voters in Delhi and
of Rs 5 lakh and term insurance of Rs
The estimated value of the premium 10 lakh to lawyers, who are residents of these 29,098 are on its rolls and
being paid by the government at this of the national capital, Law minister have been verified.
point in time is Rs 510 crores. The Kailash Gahlot said. The lawyers will be
amount is expected to go up further as insured under the Chief Minister Advo- Centre launches Rs.
the number of beneficiaries is expected cates Welfare Scheme, which was an- 10,000-crore health care
to increase within a few days, once the nounced by the city government in
bank accounts of some of the eligible scheme
December 2019.
citizens are operationalised. Union Minister of State for Agriculture
The AAP government had set aside a Parshottam Rupala launched a new
Category-wise Coverage corpus of Rs 50 crore for the welfare
Accidental death and total perma- of lawyers under the scheme. scheme, Ayushman Sahakar, under
which the National Cooperative Devel-
nent disability (Age: 18-50 ) = Rs 5
"Honble CM @ArvindKejriwal had last opment Corporation (NCDC) would ex-
lakh
year announced CM Adv Welfare tend term loans of Rs 10,000 crore to
Accidental death and total perma- Scheme with an allocated budget of Rs cooperatives for creating healthcare
nent disability (Age: 51-70 ) = Rs 3 50 Cr. As a final step towards imple- infrastructure in rural India. There are
lakh
mentation of Scheme, Delhi Cabinet on about 52 hospitals across the country
Natural death (Age: 18-50 ) = Rs 29.10.20 has approved expenditure of run by cooperatives. They have cumu-
2 lakh more than 40.60 Cr for purchase of Life lative bed strength of more than 5,000.

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