PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The Chief Minister Sharmik Swasthya Yojana (CMSSY) of Uttarakhand designed to provide health facilities to the construction workers is becoming a role model for other States. On Saturday, a team of Uttar Pradesh Labour department, led by additional labour commissioner Junaid, visited Uttarakhand. The team held a meeting with the officials of the Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board and understood the various aspects of the health check-up facilities being provided to the workers registered under CMSSY and the effective implementation of the scheme. The team also received information about the basic framework, technical arrangements, operational process and key features of the scheme.
Labour commissioner, Uttarakhand, Prakash Chandra Dumka provided detailed information about the scheme to the team from UP. He said that the objective of CMSSY is to provide health check-ups to registered construction workers and their eligible dependents, to identify serious illnesses early and to ensure appropriate medical consultation and referral for treatment as needed.
Dumka stated that the scheme is being implemented through effective utilization of available systems and resources in the state. He informed that about 60,000 registered construction workers have been covered by the health check-up under the scheme without any capital investment. He said that the effective functioning and innovative implementation model of the CMSSY is being appreciated at the national level.
In its visit, the UP team learned about CMSSY’s technical infrastructure, registration and verification processes, conducting health check-up camps, providing test reports, identifying serious illnesses and coordinating with related departments. The team studied the scheme’s practical implementation model and discussed the possibilities for developing a similar system in UP.
