Parliament Winter Session HIGHLIGHTS: No Cyber Attack Or Data Hacking Of Census Data Observed, Says Govt In LS
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Till December 14, 4.21 crore hospital admissions worth Rs 49,468.60 crore had been authorised under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said on Tuesday.
Launched in 2018, AB PM-JAY is the largest publicly funded health insurance scheme which provides a health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to 10.74 crore poor and vulnerable families.
"As on December 14, under AB PM-JAY, 4.21 crore hospital admissions worth Rs 49,468.60 crore have been authorised, which contributes to directly reduce the out-of-pocket expenditure of the public," Pawar said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
No cyber attack or data hacking incident has been observed in the Data Centre or its Disaster Recovery Sites of the Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Multiple Layered Security approach has been adopted for the security and safety of Census data, the government informed Lok Sabha.
Parliament's Winter Session is likely to conclude on December 23, a week before its schedule, reported PTI citing sources.
It added that the decision to end the Winter Session of Parliament ahead of schedule was taken at the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of Lok Sabha.
The opposition staged a walkout from Rajya Sabha while the Lok Sabha also faced huge chaos over the deaths in Bihar due to spurious liquor.
Joint opposition staged walkout from the Rajya Sabha over 'misuse of National Human Rights Commission in Bihar hooch tragedy'.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that he can still say that BJP had no role in the freedom struggle after the party hit back at him for a similar statement earlier.
Yesterday, LoP Mallikarjun Kharge gave an indecent speech in Alwar. The language used is unfortunate. I condemn the manner in which he used indecent language, said baseless things & attempted to present lies before the nation. I demand an apology from him: Leader of House in RS, P Goyal.
He (Mallikarjun Kharge) should apologise to the BJP, the Parliament, and the people of this country who formed the BJP govt with an absolute majority. He (Kharge) gave us a glimpse of his mindset and jealousy, he added.
Huge chaos in Parliament as both houses witness sloganeering by the opposition.
The BJP Parliamentary Party meeting is underway in Delhi. PM Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP national president JP Nadda and others attend the meeting.
BJP MP Sumer Singh Solanki gives Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha with the demand to establish medical colleges in tribal aspirational districts.
RJD MP Manoj Jha gives Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha to discuss the "partisan role of organisations like NHRC", reports ANI.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP chief JP Nadda have arrived for the Parliamentary party meeting.
External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, and Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal & V Muraleedharan arrive for the Parliamentary Party meeting.
BJP MPs have also arrived.
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HIGHLIGHTS: Piyush Goyal On Walk Out Of Opposition From Rajya Sabha
Union Minister Piyush Goyal lashed out at the Opposition parties for walking out of Rajya Sabha on Monday after their request for discussion on the China border dispute was denied by the Chair. Goyal said that the House witnessed the frustration and complete lack of decorum from Opposition parties which reached a level where they don't believe in any rules in the functioning of Parliament.
“In Rajya Sabha today we witnessed the frustration and complete lack of decorum from Opposition parties. Their frustration reached a level where they don't believe in any rules/regulations in the functioning of Parliament,” Goyal said.
He said that the opposition parties are even denying the rulings of the Chair and behaving as an obstructionist and destructive.
AAP's Raghav Chadha Attacks Govt On Inflation
Amid the ongoing winter session of Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Monday took a jibe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over the issue of inflation. Targeting the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, he said, "the Finance Minister had said that she does not eat onions, so she does not know the price of onion, what will the Finance Minister say about the price of milk, curd and flour?"
"The House that look at the situation of inflation, when the Modi government was formed in the year 2014, petrol was sold at Rs 55 per liter and today petrol is being sold at Rs 100 per litre," he added.
Raghav Chadha, the leader of the AAP, attacked the BJP in the Rajya Sabha for describing the assistance that his party provided to individuals as "revadi" and questioned how the subsidies provided by the Centre are any different, calling for a discussion on what constitutes freebies.
The Bharatiya Janta Party has used the freebies issue to attack the Aam Adami Party (AAP), particularly during the recent assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh as well as the polls for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
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