Dear Editor, Through the columns of your paper I would like to highlight the issue of a common man when he has to undergo medical checkup with a doctor in his private clinics where government’s scheme of things regarding transaction of any sort of money through Aadhaar-linked accounts for proper accounting of tax-able amount are brazenly flouted. The doctors charge consultation fees in cash amounting to Rs 300 to 600 from individual patients and if they examine 70 to 100 patients in a day, same is really a matter of concern for IT Department and this practice of charging fees has the loophole of escaping from Income Tax as this money is exchanged in cash in-between patient and consulting doctor. Without casting aspersions on doctors, there are 100 per cent chances of this money connecting to black money. This practice of examination and fee charges can well be modified to the modern technology of ‘Online’ registration for examination and fee transaction also ‘online’ through any of the available facility as ‘Net Banking’ through banking cards or through any App available such as ‘Paytm’, ‘Bhim’ and so many others. The cases where such fee transaction is not feasible, the examinee must get computer generated prescription slips mentioning there-in the online registration number and details of fee whether through transaction or cash from their individual portals with availability on free search engines linked properly to their accounts in banking sector. This practice can eliminate amassing black money in the medical field. Mahadeep Singh Jamwal 16/198, Udhampur.
