How different is the Central Government's road accident scheme from Delhi's Farishte Yojana? Know the difference
Siddhi Jain January 14, 2025 01:15 AM

Government Road Accident Scheme: Whether it is the Central Government or the State Governments, both bring many schemes for the citizens. The government starts schemes based on different types of people and their needs. Every year many road accidents happen in India. In which thousands of people lose their lives. And the biggest reason for losing lives in these accidents is not getting timely treatment.

But now for this, the government is running schemes to help people in road accidents. Recently, Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced to start of a new scheme to help the injured in road accidents with cashless treatment. Let us tell you that Farishte Yojana is being run in Delhi to help in accidents. Know what is the difference between these two schemes.

The central government is starting a new scheme.

The Government of India is running many beneficial schemes for the people of the country. Recently, Union Transport and Road Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced to start a new scheme to help the victims of road accidents across the country. Last year, the government launched this scheme in Chandigarh as a pilot project. After this, this scheme has been started in some other states of India like Assam, Punjab, Haryana and Puducherry.

Now it has been announced to start this scheme all over the country. Let us tell you that under this scheme, free cashless treatment will be given by the government for seven days of the accident or up to Rs 1.5 lakh. Under this scheme, benefits will be available in registered hospitals under Ayushman Yojana.

Delhi government runs Farishte Scheme

The Delhi government started the Farishte scheme in the year 2019 to help the injured in road accidents. Under this scheme, victims of any kind of accident in Delhi get free treatment. Not only this, people who take the victims to the hospital are also given a reward of 2 thousand rupees.

The scheme started by the central government to help the injured in accidents has a limit of up to Rs 1.5. On the other hand, the government has not set any such limit in Delhi's Farishte Yojana. Let us tell you that all the hospitals in Delhi will get benefits under this scheme. Let us tell you that this scheme was stopped in between, it has now been started again.

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