Re: New government in Rajasthan is accused of trying to sabotage free drug scheme
Title: Premature to accuse new government for sabotaging free drug scheme.
The news article contributed by Dinsa Sachan is seems to be politically motivated and it looks like author has some inherent interest.
This is very premature to accuse new government for sabotaging free drug scheme. Immediately after coming to power the Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Chief Minister of newly formed Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government called for reviewing the scheme and clearly mentioned that the government will work towards better implementation of the scheme. In the same context Mr. Rajendra Rathore, Health Minister, Government of Rajasthan met with senior officials and instructed them for suggestion for improving the access and quality of this initiative.
Every government has its own style of working and the new government never said anything about for closing the scheme. Although, initially there was a delay in issuing the purchase orders and this may be due to administrative reshuffling. But in the last month lots of purchase orders have been issued.
Furthermore, the author said removal of Dr. Samit Sharma, then MD and In-charge of the scheme was politically motivated. In this context it should be noted that Sharma was holding this post since inception of this scheme. In India on and average tenure of senior bureaucrats for any specific post is not more than 2 years. Therefore, terming his transfer politically motivated can be considered as presenting the wrong view and providing false information to the readers.
Moreover, this information given by Chhaya Pachauli, an activist with the Chittorgarh based
NGO Prayas. This should be noted that Mr. Narendra Gupta, founder of Prayas is fighting this general election from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket. The AAP is main rival of BJP both at national and state level. Its look like by providing such false, ill information against BJP government in Rajasthan, Chhaya Pachauli is trying to malign the new government and this may benefits his boss Mr. Narendra Gupta in election. The BMJ should not allow readers associated with political party to comment or publish anything and I have noted that authors have not declared any competing interest. That means they have some interest and Chhaya Pachauli is associated with politically backed organization.
This could be a possibility that the new government may not take good care off of this scheme, but we need to watch and should give time to the new government before making such irrelevant charges. Therefore, this is not right time to accuse the new government.
The reputed journal like BMJ should cross examine the fact before publishing such articles.
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Re: New government in Rajasthan is accused of trying to sabotage free drug scheme
Title: Premature to accuse new government for sabotaging free drug scheme.
The news article contributed by Dinsa Sachan is seems to be politically motivated and it looks like author has some inherent interest.
This is very premature to accuse new government for sabotaging free drug scheme. Immediately after coming to power the Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Chief Minister of newly formed Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government called for reviewing the scheme and clearly mentioned that the government will work towards better implementation of the scheme. In the same context Mr. Rajendra Rathore, Health Minister, Government of Rajasthan met with senior officials and instructed them for suggestion for improving the access and quality of this initiative.
Every government has its own style of working and the new government never said anything about for closing the scheme. Although, initially there was a delay in issuing the purchase orders and this may be due to administrative reshuffling. But in the last month lots of purchase orders have been issued.
Furthermore, the author said removal of Dr. Samit Sharma, then MD and In-charge of the scheme was politically motivated. In this context it should be noted that Sharma was holding this post since inception of this scheme. In India on and average tenure of senior bureaucrats for any specific post is not more than 2 years. Therefore, terming his transfer politically motivated can be considered as presenting the wrong view and providing false information to the readers.
Moreover, this information given by Chhaya Pachauli, an activist with the Chittorgarh based
NGO Prayas. This should be noted that Mr. Narendra Gupta, founder of Prayas is fighting this general election from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket. The AAP is main rival of BJP both at national and state level. Its look like by providing such false, ill information against BJP government in Rajasthan, Chhaya Pachauli is trying to malign the new government and this may benefits his boss Mr. Narendra Gupta in election. The BMJ should not allow readers associated with political party to comment or publish anything and I have noted that authors have not declared any competing interest. That means they have some interest and Chhaya Pachauli is associated with politically backed organization.
This could be a possibility that the new government may not take good care off of this scheme, but we need to watch and should give time to the new government before making such irrelevant charges. Therefore, this is not right time to accuse the new government.
The reputed journal like BMJ should cross examine the fact before publishing such articles.
Competing interests: No competing interests