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CGHS new guidelines Central Government Employees - 7TH pay commission new update: Central Government Employees if you have been waiting for the 7th pay commission updates, this one might be helpful for you. Recently the ministry of Health and family Welfare has published new guidelines regarding issue of CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme) cards. The ministry has explicitly mentioned that employees who are paying their monthly salary dues and are contributing to CGHS are entitled to command service card and this stand even if there is no application put forward for the card. This move is to make sure that employees do not apply for the card separately so that they do not miss being fairly compensated for health benefits that ought to be provided.
What was the rationale behind the decision
The perplexing fact is that aides at the Health department tend to ignore the reality that so many central government employees do not get to apply for CGHS cards when they do add to the pool. The ministry aimed at reducing access barriers to CGHS services left unattended but actively contributed to. If you wish to know, there is intent behind the automatic issue of CGHS card and that’s for good business sense, too. This is in case there is no working employee who is claimed to be entitled to benefits but absolutely none is provided access to availed. Being a mandatory health scheme CGHS have many advantages. To add value for those whose place of residence is in the CGHS dispensary area, there automatic reductions get implemented. These employees requiring application for the CGHS have been supplmented with new mandate.
This is the ministry’s argument
The Ministry’s explanation states that in case where CGHS contribution is being compulsorily deducted from the salary of a government employee, then it would be unjust to forgo granting him the advantage of CGHS facilities on the basis that he has not made a request for the card. Moreover, the Health Ministry has instructed the other departments to guarantee that CGHS cards are issued without any action being taken by the employee concerned.
