Sukhbir direct DCs to enroll beneficiaries under blue cards

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed all the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) in the state to expedite the process of enrollment and distribution of 28.50 lakh blue cards under Atta Dal scheme by February next year.
Reviewing all the welfare and developmental schemes in a meeting with DCs here, he ordered them to initiate preparation of smart health cards under cashless health insurance schemes launched for farmers, traders, labourers in the state.
Badal also directed to take necessary steps for enrollment and distribution of smart blue cards under Atta Dal scheme also to be used under Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Bima Yojna.

He informed that recently Punjab government has launched a cashless health insurance scheme which would benefit approximately 2 lakh labourers, 2 lakh traders and 10 lakh farmers of the state.
He directed that the meeting of district level advisory committees and district grievance committees should be convened in the first week of every month by the cabinet ministers.
He asked Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal to issue orders regarding this and directed that Chief Parliamentary Secretaries would head the advisory committees and divisional grievance committees at sub-divisional level every month.

Reviewing the progress of 'sewa kendars' being setup in the rural and urban areas, he revealed that the 2174 sewa kendars would be launched on Baisakhi next year across the state and asked the chief secretary to take stock of the preparations.

Concentrating on the skill development sector, he asked Secretary Technical Education and Industrial Training R K Verma to fasten the pace of constructing 150 skill centers in villages and towns which would cost Rs 25 lakh per center.
Badal appointed the chief secretary as the nodal officer to supervise the blue card and cashless health insurance card schemes.
He, as per an official release, also made the DCs and SDMs the nodal officers of welfare schemes at district and sub-divisional level and further instructed the DCs to review progress of all welfare schemes every Monday and send a consolidated report.

He also asked the DCs to carry out a comprehensive review of the empaneled hospitals under cashless health insurance scheme and recommend the inclusion of any reputed out hospital if any besides asking for those hospitals to be struck off the list which don't have adequate facilities.