Corona Warriors Scheme, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh government has launched Corona Warriors scheme again for the front-line health care workers across the state. In view of the prevalent second wave of the pandemic this scheme is being relaunched. Initially it was launched during the last year. This announcement was made by CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan while addressing the health care workers in the state through video conferencing on April 29, 2021. Under this scheme, in case of death of any health care worker while on duty, the government will provide an honorarium of Rs. 50 lakhs to the family. All the health care workers across the state will be covered in this scheme. In the video conference, CM also expressed gratitude towards the doctors, nurses and all the health care workers for serving the people relentlessly throughout the pandemic

Scheme Overview:

Scheme Objectives and Benefits:

• The main objective of the scheme is to provide support and security to the family in case of any unforeseen event like death while on duty
• It covers all the health workers across the state under this scheme
• Honorarium of Rs. 50 lakhs will be provided by the state government to the families
• Under this scheme social security will be provided to the families in case of death of the health worker
• This scheme tends to support all the health workers and their families as a token for relentlessly being on the front line, serving the state by saving lives of people in this pandemic

Key Points:

• CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressed all the health care workers across the state on April 29, 2021 through video conferencing
• In the video conference CM announced the relaunch of Corona Warriors scheme. Initially this scheme was active last years but in the view of second wave of the pandemic this scheme is being relaunched again
• Under this scheme the families of health care workers will be given an honorarium of Rs. 50 lakhs in case of any unforeseen event like death of the worker while on duty
• This scheme tends to support all the health workers and their families as a token for relentlessly being on the front line, serving the state by saving lives of people in this pandemic
• Under this scheme all the doctors, nurses, medical staff and all the health care workers will be covered
• While addressing the CM also expressed his gratitude towards all the front line health care workers for their service to the state and its people and said it would be remembered forever
• Government named this scheme as Corona Warriors aptly considering the service of Doctors as warriors in the covid crisis.