New Delhi: In the main break to thousands of Indian air retirees, the government operator acquired by the Tata Group last month, civilian minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said modalities were being worked on to provide medical facilities to them.
Scindia’s guarantee came in response to a letter written by Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.
“Please refer to your letter on October 20, 2021 about providing medical facilities to retirees Air India Limited employees.
I have a problem checked,” he said in the letter on November 12.
The next minister wrote: “I want to tell you that the government is fully conscious and committed to providing medical facilities to the retirees of Air India employees.
Modalities for the same are being consulted by consultation with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.” Previously, Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Scindia and said: “I wrote this letter to pay attention to your attention.
It was brought to my notification that many Indian water employees were not covered by any possible insurance.
Pilot, engineer, cabin crew, catering staff, land handling staff, administrative staff, staff Medical, commercial and staff staff who have served their lives in the air India are now left without concrete medical support.
“He said a number of annuities who were entitled to retired employees once in three months from Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and their problems further exacerbated by the fact that no penut Medical up is worthy for that person for more than 60 years or it becomes difficult to claim one more because of age factors.
Shiv Leader Sena said, “Saddens I know that retired employees have no insurance benefits.
With Indian water divestment, this problem becomes more acute.
I hope you will see this problem and relieve a harsh retired employee of their struggle.” In a fast response , Scinkia assured him that the Civil Service Ministry is committed to providing medical facilities to Indian air retirees and it exercises with modalities with health and family welfare ministries for the same.
Incidentally, both Scindia and Chaturvedi are colleagues in Congress.
Chaturvedi, who was a spokesman for Congress, left the party during the 2019 Lok Sabha selection and joined Shiv Sena.
Scindia, all of which are General Secretary of the Indian Congress (AICC) responsible for the West Uttar Pradesh, quit the party last year along with several MLA parties from the Madhya Pradesh unit and because of its loyalty.
His resignation led to the fall of the Kamal Congress government in the state in March, 2020 and the return of the BJP government in the state with Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a helmet.
In the latest expansion and reshuffle of the Council of Preaching Minister Narendra Narendra, Scindia is induced as a Civil Service Minister.