4,000 benefited from Suvidha camps: MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu

Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 29

Former minister and local MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu said today that the Punjab Government was committed to extending the benefits of public welfare schemes to every person and continuous efforts were being made to make the people aware of these schemes.

Presiding over a Suvidha camp at the District Administrative Complex here, Sidhu specifically referred to the scheme of allotting five-marla plots to the needy. He said he took up the matter with Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to ease the norms so that the benefits could be extended to everyone.

He said the Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna had become a major source of relief to the people as it provides free treatment up to Rs5 lakh per family to the beneficiaries in public as well as private hospitals.

He said around 4,000 beneficiaries had availed themselves of the benefits of various schemes till October 28 during these Suvidha camps held at the subdivision level across the district.

Sidhu also distributed job cards of MGNREGA scheme, pension approval letters and consent letters of various schemes to the beneficiaries.