Govt to introduce Health Insurance Scheme : CM

31 August,Puducherry

The Puducherry government would consider setting up of a Health Insurance Scheme for the benefit of the public, Chief Minister V Narayansmay told the Assembly Wednesday.

Replying to a question from Congress member Anantharaman, the Chief Minister said that the government proposed to set up an insurance scheme for the retired government servants.

However, members who posed supplementary questions, cutting across party lines, demanded that the government should go for one as in Tamil Nadu. To this, the Chief minister said following demands from several members and Agriculture Minister Kamalkannan, the government would take steps to introduce a health insurance scheme after due consultations.

It would be on the lines of the one introduced by Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Welfare Minister M Kandasamy was swift enough to the demand that the scheme be named after Sonia Gandhi.