The Hitavada: Lucknow: Saturday, July 07, 2018.
CM’s Office
revealed that he has so far sanctioned a sum of Rs 223.31 crores for treatment
of 15,716 persons from CM’s Discretionary Fund
UTTAR Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sanctioned a whopping sum of Rs 223.31 crore
in a little more than a year of his tenure for treatment of over 15,000
seriously-ill persons in Uttar Pradesh, a RTI response has revealed.
In response
to the RTI poser by a Hindi newspaper, the Chief Minister’s Office has revealed
that he has so far sanctioned a sum of Rs 223.31 crores for treatment of 15,716
persons.
His
predecessor Akhilesh Yadav’s spend during his tenure of 2012-2017 under this
head was Rs 552.92 crore which was used for treatment of 42,508 persons.
Officials of
the Chief Minister’s Office told IANS that this money was given to the
seriously ill from the Chief Minister’s Discretionary Fund after due diligence
is done by his office as the applications are routed back to the districts
concerned where officials asked to verify the disease mentioned by the
applicant and also verify the amount sought for treatment.
Once this
process is duly followed and adhered to the application is routed back to the
Chief Minister’s Office in Lucknow and the funds released, an official said,
adding that the funds are not transferred to the beneficiary but is sent directly
to the institution or hospital where the treatment is to be done.
Compared to
Adityanath and Akhilesh Yadav, their predecessors have been miserly on this
front.
As per
information available, Mayawati, during her two tenures, had sanctioned Rs
62.91 crore for treatment of 15,681 persons, Mulayam Singh Yadav, between
2003-2007, granted Rs 28.21 crore for treatment of 5,526 persons while Rajnath
Singh had granted financial assistance of Rs 5.51 crore in his tenure of a
little more than one year.
This grant is
given to persons suffering from life-threatening diseases like cancer and
liver, heart and kidney ailments.