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
Govt revisits plan to raise wage cap for PF coverageThe government is considering a significant increase in the provident fund wage ceiling. Current limits may rise to ₹25,000 or ₹30,000 mont...
18 Apr, 2026, 01.01 AM 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
Capacity boost for EPFO, ESIC to pave way for labour reformsThe Social Security Code, 2020, passed by Parliament in 2020, entails extending social security to gig and platform workers. Some of the ch...
14 Jun, 2024, 12.32 AM IST
PM Gati Shakti to aid in expanding social securityTo begin with, the ministry has geotagged 1.3 million establishments covered under the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), about...
12 May, 2024, 11.38 PM IST
Job creation under ESIC up 13.4% in MayThe provisional payroll data of ESIC reveals that 20.23 lakh new employees have been added in May 2023, a labour ministry statement said. A...
18 Jul, 2023, 12.47 AM IST
ESIC scheme adds 11.82 lakh new members in OctoberIt showed that the gross new enrolments with the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 cro...
23 Dec, 2022, 06.04 PM IST
ESIC scheme adds 14.93 lakh new members in MayAround 14.93 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in May 2022, according to official data released on Monday. The la...
25 Jul, 2022, 02.53 PM IST
ESIC scheme adds 12.84 lakh new members in JanuaryThe NSO report showed that gross enrolments of new subscribers with ESIC were 1.15 crore in 2020-21, compared to 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and ...
25 Mar, 2022, 02.47 PM IST
ESIC too may be allowed to invest 15% of corpus in mutual funds, stocksThe ESIC corpus currently stands at over ₹90,000 crore. Of this, over ₹23,000 crore is earmarked as reserve fund, while the rest is investe...
14 Jan, 2021, 07.51 AM IST
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation kick-starts work on social security scheme for organised workersThe organisation, under the labour ministry, has written to states to speed up creation of requisite medical infrastructure in 161 district...
31 Oct, 2020, 11.11 AM IST
12.06 lakh new members join in January: ESIC payroll dataGross enrolments of new subscribers with ESIC were 1.49 crore during the entire 2018-19 financial year, the National Statistical Office (NS...
25 Mar, 2020, 04.28 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
Government to implement social security code in three phasesModi govt is planning to unveil the social security scheme before general elections next year.
27 Nov, 2018, 01.23 PM IST
'Plans afoot to hike min wages, expand social security net'The NDA government is seeking to significantly boost incomes of the country's lowest paid workers by substantially raising the minimum wage...
29 Dec, 2015, 11.43 PM IST
No proposal for extending social security benefits to unorganised workers: Bandaru DattatreyaLabour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said there is no proposal to extend social security benefits to unorganised sector worker...
01 Dec, 2014, 04.47 PM IST
- Wipro gets ESIC's Rs 1,182 crore E-governance deal
Employees State Insurance Corporation, has signed a Rs 1,182-crore contract with, Wipro Technologies, for converting its paper-based admini...
22 Mar, 2009, 10.17 AM IST