New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday substantially enhanced compensation awarded to a Uttarakhand carpenter who lost his right leg in a road accident, holding that courts must assess the real impact of an injury on a victim’s livelihood and recognise “functional disability” rather than mechanically relying on medical disability certificates. A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and N.V. Anjaria increased the compensation payable to claimant Shankar Dutt from Rs 11.51 lakh, as a…
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Chandigarh, Jan 5 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s announcement of providing a health insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh to 65 lakh families in Punjab is a bundle of “lies aimed at misleading people”, the BJP alleged on Monday, claiming that the government is paying only Rs 1 lakh as insurance premium to the insurance company.”When the government is paying a premium of just Rs 1 lakh to the company, how can the company provide an insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh?” BJP leader Manoranjan Kali…
Chandigarh, Jan 2 (IANS) To roll out the ‘Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna’ on January 15, the state government on Friday signed a pact with the United India Insurance Company to provide Rs 10 lakh cashless health insurance cover to all families of Punjab. The agreement was signed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) State Health Agency, Sanyam Aggarwal and Executive Director of United India Insurance, Mathew George, in the presence of State Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh.Declaring it a …