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17th, Feburary, 2022

The state government took effective work on “Ayushman Bharat Scheme” initiated by the central government to provide good health services and health insurance to the public.
Health insurance of up to Rs 5 lakh is being provided to the beneficiary families in the state under the scheme.

Ayushman Bharat is a health protection scheme to provide health insurance to citizens.
It provides insurance coverage of up to Rs. 5 lakh on a family floater basis to beneficiaries every year in order to receive primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services.

(Source: HP Government)

Kullu DC Ashutosh Garg said the Election Commission of India is holding a national competition on the theme “My Vote is My Future – Power of One Vote”.
He said persons of any age group could participate.

The aim was to take advantage of talent and creativity to strengthen democracy through active participation. He said entries would have to be sent or uploaded before March 15 on the website https://voterawarenesscontest.in/.
DC indicated that entries could be sent for any competition in five types of contests such as singing, video creation, poster design, slogan writing and the questionnaire. He said, “Only one entry can be submitted for one contest. However, separate entries may also be sent for each competition.” He added that singing, video creation and poster design competitions were categorized into three categories. These include the institutional, professional and non-professional or amateur categories. He said attractive prizes would be awarded in each category.
The official said in the video making competition, the first prize in the institutional category was Rs 2 lakh. In the professional category of this competition, the first prize would be Rs 50,000. He added that in the amateur category, the first prize would be Rs 30,000.
Garg said in the singing competition, the first prize in the institutional category would be Rs 1 lakh. He added that in the professional category of this event, the top prize would be Rs 50,000. He added that in the non-professional or amateur category, the top award would be Rs 20,000.

The competition will be on the theme ‘My Vote is My Future – Power of One Vote’.
There will be five types of contests: singing, creating videos, designing posters, drafting slogans and quizzes.
People from any age group can take part.