New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators on Tuesday withdrew from the Delhi high court their petition demanding implementation of Centre-funded Ayushman Bharat Pradhanmantri Jan Arogaya Yojana (AB PMJAY) scheme in Delhi.
Launched by Centre in 2018, PMJAY is a health insurance scheme that provides a health cover of Rs.5 lakh per family for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of empaneled health care providers.
The counsel of the seven BJP lawmakers submitted before a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Manmeet PS Arora that the issue no longer survived since the BJP had won the Delhi assembly elections, held recently, and had promised for implementing the scheme in Delhi in the first cabin...