The court had found it peculiar that one department of the Delhi government was working against the other.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday reacted that the Delhi government and the Lieutenant-Governor must try to make peace with each other when informed that funds for the ‘Farishtey Dilli Ke’ scheme, facilitating free medical treatment to road accident victims in city hospitals, have been cleared.
The oral observation from a Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan came after the Delhi government counsel said it did not want to press a petition that accused officials of running the social welfare scheme to seed throught their inaction and mismanagement. The court had sought a response from the L-G on the petition filed by the government in December 2023.
The court had found it peculiar that one department of the Delhi government was working against the other. The government petitions had at the time claimed that 23,000 road accident victims were provided cashless treatment in private hospitals under the ‘Farishtey Dilli Ke’ scheme.
The plea had sought the immediate re-operationalisation of the scheme by clearing pending bills, releasing timely payments to private hospitals and initiating disciplinary action against officials responsible for deliberately orchestrating the “de-operationalisation” of the scheme.
Published – January 03, 2025 01:13 am IST
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