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The Delhi government’s three-day campaign launched across 42 locations to educate and provide residents with access to payment schemes and services under 1 roof has evoked mixed response. While galore residents welcomed the initiative launched by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday, immoderate recovered their applications stalled by missing documents.
Alina, 17, who has conscionable completed Class 12, arrived astatine a campy successful Chandni Chowk to seek accusation connected much than 1 scheme. “I privation to get a assistance to survey successful Jamia [Millia Islamia] and know if there is any work-related strategy for maine truthful I could enactment my household financially,” she said. She near carrying brochures from the assistance counter, but without any clarity connected whether she qualified.
Like Ms. Alina, galore visitors utilized the camps to research benefits they had ne'er antecedently heard of. Others managed to implicit paperwork successful a azygous day that would have taken aggregate visits to antithetic authorities offices. According to the government, 43,973 people visited the camps in two days to get accusation astir payment schemes and services, question redress of grievances and implicit indispensable formalities.
‘Simplifying things’
For immoderate residents, the camps delivered contiguous results. Ishrat, a nonmigratory of Daryaganj, got an Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) card made for her disabled girl astatine the Chandni Chowk camp. “We are not educated people, and camps similar these assistance simplify things for us,” she said.
Shahina Parveen, who besides obtained an ABHA card, said she filled a signifier to close the spelling of her sanction connected her ration card. “It was causing maine problems for a agelong time,” she said. At a campy successful Bengali Market, Anjana got her Saheli Pink Smart Card made, which allows free question connected Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses. “The payment is that everything gets done successful 1 place,” she said.
At the ABHA counter, Sunil said a damaged oculus had gone untreated due to the fact that of analyzable aesculapian documentation requirements. “My oculus lens is damaged, and I haven’t been capable to spend the treatment,” helium said. He registered for an ABHA ID, which volition digitally store his aesculapian records for aboriginal infirmary visits.
Counters tally by departments including the Delhi Jal Board and the House Tax Department offered services related to Pink cards, ration cards, e-Shram cards, Jan Dhan accounts, Aadhaar registration, PM SVANidhi and PM Surya Ghar star registration, among others. Many visitors said they learned astir schemes specified arsenic DJB transportation regularisation, Ayushman cards for elder citizens supra 70 years of age, and pension grounds updates lone aft visiting the camps.
However, immoderate near without their enactment getting done. At immoderate ration card counters, applicants said they were turned distant due to the fact that they lacked income certificates oregon different supporting documents. The acquisition served arsenic a reminder that adjacent a single-window campy cannot wholly regenerate the paperwork and verification processes needed for welfare transportation connected the ground. Whether the forms collected this week volition construe into results volition go clearer with the camps concluding on Saturday.
By Alankrita Ray
