New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Government to take all steps required for the immediate procurement of insurance policies for the 29,098 advocates whose names have been verified by the Bar Council of Delhi.
The court while passing direction in this regard also stated that any verification of the said names which the Delhi government wishes to conduct, to check if they are on the electoral rolls of Delhi or not, would be done parallelly, to ensure that there is no delay in implementation of the Scheme.
Justice Pratibha M Singh further directed the Delhi Government to go ahead with the issuance of the Notice Inviting Tenders ("NIT") seeking bids from the insurance companies, in order to finalise the insurance company which would be awarded the tender for the group insurance and mediclaim insurance of the 29,098 Advocates. Let the NIT be issued within a period of one week from today by the Principal Secretary, Department of Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs, Delhi government, the court said while slated the matter for July 17 for next hearing.
The court was hearing the several petitions seeking medical and term insurance policy to advocates as promised by the Delhi government.
One of the petition also moved by Advocate KC Mittal, Chairman, Bar Council of Delhi seeks direction to the Respondents to release the money and provide insurance policy covers for Medical and Term insurance, as per "Chief Minister Advocates Welfare Scheme", to Advocates, who have already been registered and approved in terms of Cabinet Decision dated December 18, 2019 and the public advertisement dated March 20, 2020, numbering 29,098.