Maharashtra health minister urges Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to revise income eligibility limit for ESIS beneficiariesUnion Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Maharashtra Health Minister Prakash Ambedkar convened in New Delhi to assess the Employees’ State Insu...
18 Jul, 2025, 01.52 PM IST
ESIC approves amnesty and registration scheme for its beneficiariesThe Employees’ State Insurance Corporation has approved the second phase of the SPREE scheme, relaunching it from July 1 to December 31, 20...
27 Jun, 2025, 06.38 PM IST
Uttarakhand to launch campaign to register pregnant women in unorganized sector under PMMVYUttarakhand is launching a 15-day special campaign from October 4 to register pregnant women in the unorganized sector, including construct...
03 Oct, 2024, 09.30 PM IST
Govt to provide medical coverage, other benefits under Employees State Insurance schemeOnce notifications for ESI coverage are issued by the respective states/ UTs, the casual and contractual workers working with municipal bod...
10 Jun, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
Government proposes to enhance wage ceiling for dependent parentsThe draft notification comes following a decision of the ESIC board in February this year in this regard.
27 Jun, 2019, 02.18 PM IST
Trade unions condemn government's move to reduce ESI contributionThe government reduced the contribution under the Employees' State Insurance Act from from 6.5% to 4% which it cleaned will benefit 3.6 cro...
14 Jun, 2019, 05.32 PM IST
Government mulls health insurance cover for weavers under ESICThe medical care under the ESI scheme entails primary, secondary and tertiary medical care with no cap on individual expenditure.
02 Apr, 2017, 01.48 PM IST
Three-month window for employers to register under ESICTo extend the coverage to the entire workforce a new employer friendly scheme has been approved at the 170th meeting of EISC, chaired by la...
15 Dec, 2016, 06.00 PM IST
Now, 35 lakh more workers come under Employees' State Insurance's purviewThe government, in principle, decided to enhance the threshold limit of wage for coverage under the ESI Act, 1948 from existing Rs 15,000 p...
23 Nov, 2016, 05.33 PM IST
Mega health shield scheme may include ESI planThe inclusion of ESI will extend the insurance benefits to over 10 crore people. Currently, the health protection scheme is targeting to co...
08 May, 2016, 11.48 AM IST
ESIC decides to extend service to whole of IndiaESIC decided to extend the coverage of the ESI scheme to the entire country and set up a panel to establish state arms to serve its 2.03 cr...
18 Dec, 2015, 08.29 PM IST
Unorganized sector may get complete medical care under ESI schemeUnder the ESI scheme the government provides full medical care to an insured person and his family from the day he enters insurable employm...
16 Aug, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
Construction labourers to get medical benefits under Employee State Insurance schemeThe decision is seen as a big step by the BJP government to extend social security coverage to a large chunk of unorganized workers.
10 Aug, 2015, 11.52 AM IST
Karnataka government wants rice loaders to get Provident FundFor the first time, the state has made Employees State Insurance (ESI) coverage and Provident Fund (PF) mandatory for hamalis the loaders a...
30 Jan, 2015, 11.19 AM IST
Karnataka and Chhattisgarh agree to implement Labour Ministry's wider access programmeLabour Ministry's initiative aims to provide medical facilities to potential ESI beneficiaries where it may not be feasible for state govts...
15 Dec, 2014, 06.23 PM IST
'2 states agree to implement Labour Ministry's wider access initiative'"The governments of Karnataka and Chhattisgarh have agreed to implement the initiative on pilot basis and accordingly identified two areas ...
15 Dec, 2014, 04.13 PM IST
- Govt examining recommendation for raising wage ceiling for ESI
Government is examining a recommendation for raising of monthly wage ceiling for Employees State Insurance coverage from Rs.6,500 at presen...
30 Jan, 2003, 02.50 PM IST