PM Modi launches (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT scheme for J&K

Srinagar, Dec 26 (KNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT scheme for the residents of Jammu and Kashmir, via video conferencing.

While interacting with a cancer patient Ramesh Lal from Jammu, who is a beneficiary of the scheme, during the launch, PM Modi said: “Ayushman Bharat has made your life ‘ayushman’. I urge you to tell everyone you meet about this scheme and its benefits.”

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that PM Modi wishes to see speedy development in Jammu and Kashmir and improvement in the standard of living of people. He presses that democracy should reach the grassroots levels and wishes peace and security for people of the state.

Nearly 229 govt hospitals and 35 private hospitals have been listed under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. Under this scheme, people of Jammu and Kashmir will be able to avail free medical facilities up to Rs 5 lakh, Shah said.

Commenting on the recently held DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir, PM Modi said, Jammu and Kashmir has won Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of ‘gram swaraj’. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have voted for strengthening democracy in the state. People of all walks of life came out and voted for development in DDC elections,he said according to KNS correspondent.

He also said that even after Supreme Court has directed that Panchayati and municipal elections should be conducted in Puducherry, the elections are not being conducted there.

" Those who keep on teaching me lessons on democracy are the ones who are running their govt there," he said. "There was a time, we were a part of the Jammu and Kashmir government but we broke the alliance. Our issue was that panchayat elections should be held and people be given their due rights to choose their representatives"( KNS) 

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