{"id":29917,"date":"2020-04-28T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:29:45","slug":"assam-govt-announced-rs-50-lakh-insurance-cover-to-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/assam-govt-announced-rs-50-lakh-insurance-cover-to-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam govt announced Rs.50 lakh insurance cover to journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Assam Cabinet has approved insurance coverage to the tune of Rs 50 lakh for journalists, home guards and casual employees who succumb to COVID-19 while on duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Frontline journalists have been bravely covering COVID-19 against all odds by risking their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the Assam state government had announced a similar insurance cover of Rs.50 lakh for health, police, and other frontline people engaged in the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journalists association in the state, including the Guwahati Press Club, welcomed the initiative taken by the Assam government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in Assam stand at 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam Cabinet has approved insurance coverage to the tune of Rs 50 lakh for journalists, home guards and casual employees who succumb to COVID-19 while on duty. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Frontline journalists have been bravely covering COVID-19 against all odds by risking their lives. Earlier, the Assam state government had announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":29918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[2996],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-assam-current-affairs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29919,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions\/29919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}