India to be top-10 sporting nation by 2036, top-5 by 2047: Sports Minister Mansukh MandaviyaIndia is set to become a global sporting powerhouse. Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya predicts India will rank among the top 10 sporting n...
24 Apr, 2026, 01.57 PM IST
ESIC benefits widen under new Labour Code 2025— who gains nowMore employees can now access ESI benefits. The Labour Code 2025, effective November 21, 2025, expands coverage. Employers must register el...
04 Jan, 2026, 07.14 PM IST
No denial of benefits without Aadhaar authentication: ESIC clarifies in new notificationThe Labour Ministry has recently announced that the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) can now use Aadhaar authentication to ver...
21 Aug, 2025, 04.31 PM IST
ESIC plans convergence with Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY: ESIC members set to get access to 30,000 hospitals under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAYThe current health infrastructure, which includes 165 hospitals, 1590 dispensaries, 105 Dispensary cum Branch Offices (DCBOs), and around 2...
28 Nov, 2024, 03.02 PM IST
ESIC to extend medical benefits to superannuated subscribers who retired at higher wagesIn its 193rd meeting, under the chairmanship of labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav, it was decided that superannuated or volunt...
10 Feb, 2024, 03.22 PM IST
Formal job creation under ESIC fell 7.5% to 1.59 mn in Nov: Payroll dataFormal job creation under the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) fell 7.5% in November, with 1.59 million new employees added. T...
16 Jan, 2024, 02.11 PM IST
Labour ministry extends unemployment benefits under ESIC for another two yearsFurther, the ministry approved setting up of new ESIC hospitals, upgradation of few hospitals and taking over a few hospitals from the stat...
20 Feb, 2023, 09.36 PM IST
ESIC eases conditions for women to avail sickness benefit, decides to set up more health facilitiesThe ESIC on Monday decided to give relaxation in contributory conditions to avail sickness benefit to the insured women availing maternity ...
23 Feb, 2021, 09.59 PM IST
ESIC to run all new hospitals by itself for better delivery of medical services“In view of demand from both workers and employees and with the objective to provide better medical services to beneficiaries, ESI Corporat...
08 Dec, 2020, 08.32 PM IST
ESIC relaxes norms for availing health services in private hospitals in emergency casesESIC subscribers would be able to visit empanelled as well as non-empanelled private hospitals for emergency treatment.
07 Dec, 2020, 11.10 PM IST
Confinement expenses hiked for pregnant women who can't avail maternity services of ESIC dispensaries“Keeping in view the rise in the cost of living index resulting increase in expenditure related to confinement, existing amount of confinem...
14 Feb, 2020, 06.02 PM IST
ESIC ties up with SBI for DBT facilityAccording to the statement, the bank would provide e-payment integration with the enterprise resource planning processes of ESIC through it...
03 Sep, 2019, 08.31 PM IST
Government plans to pay companies’ share of ESI for new recruitsESIC provides for medical care and cash benefits in the contingencies of sickness, maternity, disablement and death due to employment injur...
12 Jun, 2018, 09.23 AM IST
ESIC scheme: Reduction in insurance contribution of employers, employees takes effectTo popularise Employee’s State Insurance Corporation services, the contribution rate for both employee and the employer has been reduced.
27 Dec, 2016, 02.40 PM IST
Labour ministry to extend medical coverage benefits to on-site construction workersPrime minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce government’s big bang initiative at the upcoming Indian Labour Conference on Monday.
18 Jul, 2015, 02.43 PM IST
Government proposes to increase wage ceiling for Employees' State Insurance CorporationLabour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said that the ESIC has taken a number of decisions to improve the medical services to be provided under ...
22 Dec, 2014, 01.32 PM IST
- ESI enhances benefits for employees
The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has enhanced various benefits available to employees covered under the social security sc...
03 Feb, 2008, 10.18 AM IST