Kharge wants Labour Ministry to reverse decision on ESIC

May 03, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:49 am IST - KALABURAGI:

New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge speaks in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo / TV GRAB (PTI4_21_2015_000143A)

New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge speaks in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo / TV GRAB (PTI4_21_2015_000143A)

The leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha M. Mallikarjun Kharge has said that he has again written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to ask the Labour Ministry to reverse its decision not to run the ESIC Medical Education Complex in Kalaburagi.

“This is my third letter to the Prime Minister and I handed over this letter personally to Mr. Modi during a meeting in New Delhi. I reminded him about the assurance given by him earlier to consider the demand,” Mr Kharge said.

While the Labour Ministry and ESIC reversed its earlier decision to withdraw from medical education and decided to run the existing and new medical colleges of the ESIC in Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata, they were not in favour of running the medical college of the ESIC and start other medical education facilities in the complex here, since the Insured Person (IP) numbers were less in Kalaburagi.

Mr. Kharge said that the ESIC had changed the rules in this regard before the sanctioning the ESIC complex to Kalaburagi by including the clause that non-IPs in the unorganised sectors would also be extended the treatment facilities in the ESIC hospitals. It was also decided to extend the treatment facilities to non-IPs and charge them as per the government norms.

Mr. Kharge said that the Prime Minister had told him that one of his secretaries would get back to him with a response. “So far nobody has spoken to me. I will once again speak to the PMO in this regard,” he said.

Mr. Kharge said that the Labour Ministry in its proposal to the State government had given three options. The first option was that the Centre would complete the remaining work in the complex and the State government in turn should share 50 per cent of the profit. The second option was to repay the construction cost in three years and the third option was to start the complex on public-private participation.

This is my third letter to the Prime Minister. I handed over this letter personally to Mr. Modi. I reminded him about the assurance given to consider the demand

Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress Leader

‘So far nobody has spoken to me. I will once again speak to the PMO in this regard’

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