Sir,
This has reference to the news item’ Employees feel hoodwinked on name of Group Mediclaim Insurance Policy’ DE June 3.
Besides having the drawback as outlined by the correspondent, the Mediclaim Policy is discriminatory in nature. The Government has adopted a step-motherly attitude towards non-gazetted employees by not bringing them under this ambit. This section of employees has expressed its reservation to the policy, but the Government took least notice of it. The Government should have taken due cognizance of the matter and extended its cover to this section also. One wonders why did the Government took this step at all? The section of employees which needed it the most has been left to fend for itself. It may not be out of place to mention here that medical allowance as provided by the State Government to its employees is too meagre to meet the needs of the suffering employees. It is beyond the reach of this section to bear the increasing cost of medicines and other expensives that occur in seeking treatment from a private nursing home and even if one attends a Government hospital.
It would be prudent on the part of the State Government to bring all employees—whether gazetted or non-gazetted under its ambit.
Yours etc…
Surinder Mankotia
Bhawani Nagar, Jammu
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