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Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress legislator Taraprasad Bahinipati on Tuesday raised several issues of journalists in the Odisha Assembly and demanded the government to continue their health insurance scheme.
The previous BJD government had implemented the Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana for working journalists of Odisha.
While speaking inside the House, Bahinipati urged the BJP government to renew the existing health insurance scheme for the scribers. He also demanded to enhance the insured amount to Rs 20 lakh from existing Rs 5 lakh per year.
The Congress leader also demanded for inclusion of parents of the journalists under the Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana.
Further, he urged the BJP government to allow authorised journalists to the lobby of Odisha assembly, which has stopped since the outbreak of Covid-19.
Notably, different delegations of journalists in Odisha met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi after he assumed office and raised these demands before him.
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