TALCHER NEWS REPORTERS NEGLECTED TO GET ODISHA GOVT. HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY CARD

Dhiramohan Ray,Odishabarta

TALCHER:The odisha state government  has been  issuing GOBABANDHU SWASTHYA BIMA health card to the working journalists engaged in different print and electronic media houses to protect and save the journalists in different health issues for the benefit of the journalists and their spouses, but it was very much cut off by the Angul district admin, cause the numbers of journalists are very high in the district of Angul. In the month of June this year, above 1 hundred eighty reporters were submitted their requisite datas to add and enroll in the scheme of the state Govt. When all the journalists of other districts have availed their health cards, some journalists of Talcher and other areas of Angul dist. asked to their SDIPRO regarding the issue, but no satisfactory answers were being given by them regarding nonavailability of health insurance cards to the journalists those were  availed in previous years.

When asked to DIPRO of Angul regarding the unwanted and partial workout  towards the working journalists not to enlisted them to prevail health insurance card adopted by the state Govt. among the previous card holders and new journalists, he streaight  forward to say,” the descission has been taken by the collector and D.M. of the dist, I have no way to decide about this matter”.

In protesting this inhuman and unethical descission, all the reporters of Talcher  were came forward to sit in  a DHARANA in front of the sub collector’s office and given a  memorandum to the Angul dist, admin. through sub collector, Talcher on 22nd. October Friday. If this issue will not be solved  immediately by getting the health card, then all the journalists will have a GHERAO at collector’s office on monday.