Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan Launched

New Delhi: Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences and Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, together, inaugurated the Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan (SSA) yesterday at Siri Fort Auditorium. The Swasth Saarthi Abhiyaan (SSA) is a two month long mega campaign focusing on providing preventive healthcare to the auto, taxi and bus drivers of the region. SSA, an initiative of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), was inaugurated . The SSA event is a unique initiative to address the major issues being faced by public transport drivers of the region, with almost all of them being users of CNG. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in his address said that the drivers in the capital region are partners in the growth story of gas used as fuel in vehicles. Shri Pradhan said that the 2 month long medical camp at various IGL stations in the Capital will provide free health checkup which includes blood test, sugar test, eye test with the help of doctors from St Stephen hospital. He also added that IGL is planning to provide health insurance which would also include death benefits for drivers in the Capital. 

 

The Minister launched the Swasth Saarthi web application which will enable the drivers undergoing the health checkups during the campaign to access their health records online from anywhere, in case of need. 

 

Dr Harsh Vardhan, congratulated the Petroleum Minister and all stakeholders for taking the initiative of SSA. 

 

Earlier, Mr. E.S. Ranganathan outlined the commitment of IGL to engage with one of its largest stakeholder groups i.e. the drivers and address the issues being faced by them. 

 

A ‘Fuel Conservation Workshop’ for drivers was also organized by Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) as a part of Saksham 2017 – the mass Oil and Gas Conservation Campaign. 

 

A mega Health Camp was held on the occasion to provide basic preventive health care needs. The campaign would continue in form of health camps at various CNG stations of IGL till 31stAugust 2017.