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Around 84,000 claims amounting to Rs 174 crore were processed during the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Special Services Fortnight from February 24 to March 10. The special services fortnight was launched by Union Minister for Labour & Employment Bhupender Yadav on February 24 to mark 71 years of services to insured workers and their dependents. It culminated on March 10, a labour ministry statement said on Friday. During the 15 days, the focus was on ease of services to insured persons and their dependents through activities pertaining to clearance of pending bills/claims, redressal of grievances, emphasis on millet diets and yoga, and health check-up camps in industrial clusters. During the fortnight, around 84,000 claims amounting to Rs 174 crore were processed, the statement said. Around 73,659 claims amounting to Rs 53.02 crore were processed and paid to insured workers and their dependents. As many 4,585 bills of tie-up hospitals, 5,305 bills of GeM, ...

Union minister Bhupender Yadav on Friday said the number of beds and hospitals of Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will be increased to 28,116 and 241, respectively, in coming days. Yadav was addressing a function to mark 71 foundation day of ESIC here. The minister informed that there were 18,933 beds and 151 hospitals of ESIC in 2014. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi started ESIC 2.0 and in a span of eight years, the number of ESIC beds and hospitals increased to 20,211 and 160 respectively. In coming days the beds would be increased to 28,116 and hospital number will be 241." The minister also referred to government's commitment to provide social security to unorganised workers in the country saying almost 29 crore informal workers are registered on eSharm portal. He was of the view that this national database will be an aid to provide various social security benefits to informal sector workers in the country. Labour ministry stated in a statement that the eShram por

Between September 2017 and November 2022, 6.09 crore new subscribers joined the EPF scheme

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has planned to fill 6,400 vacancies including over 2,000 doctors and teaching faculty posts, wiping out the backlogs for manpower, Union Minister for Labour, Employment, Forest, Bhupender Yadav said on Saturday. Stating that health is at the core of the nation-building strategy, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is focused on ensuring easy access to medial services to all. Delivering the second Graduation Day address at the ESIC Medical College and Hospital at K K Nagar here, the Minister said ESIC is also working towards providing skill-based training programme to the workers for paramedical jobs and has launched certificate courses in 10 disciplines. "As part of the Centre's modernisation initiative under the Nirman Se Shakti' we are setting up 23 new 100-bedded hospitals across the country. We are also setting up over 60 dispensaries that will ensure the delivery of quality medical care service to insured workers

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The decision was taken at an ESIC meeting chaired by the Union labour minister Bhupender Yadav

Government's social security body Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) on Sunday approved a proposal to invest its surplus funds in the stock market through exchange traded funds (ETFs). The decision was taken in the 189th meeting of ESIC held on Sunday at ESIC headquarters under the chairmanship of Union labour minister Bhupender Yadav, a labour ministry statement said. Due to relatively low returns on investments in various debt instruments coupled with the need to diversify investment, ESIC gave its approval for investments of surplus funds in equities restricted to ETFs. The investment will start with 5 per cent of surplus funds and will increase up to 15 per cent, based on the review of the investment after two quarters, it stated. The investment will be confined to Exchanged Traded Funds on Nifty and Sensex. It will be managed by fund managers of asset management companies (AMSs), the statement said. Equity investments will be monitored by the existing custodian, ..

Currently, the companies have to make separate payments towards the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)

Around 14.62 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in August 2022, according to official data released on Tuesday. The latest data is part of a report -- Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective - August 2022 -- released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). It showed that the gross new enrolments with Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19. From September 2017 to March 2018, around 83.35 lakh new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme. The report said gross new enrolments with ESIC from September 2017 to August 2022 were 7.22 crore. The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). According to the report, net new enrolments with retirement fund body

The 350 bedded hospital will be spread over 9.5 acres and would entail an expenditure of Rs 500 crore

Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been appointed the director general of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Sunday. Kumar, a 1992-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, is currently an additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He has been appointed the DG of ESIC, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said. As per the order, T Natarajan, a 1996-batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, will be an additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. V Hekali Zhimomi has been appointed as additional secretary in the Department of Health and Family Welfare. She is at present working as a joint secretary in the same department. Ashish Srivastava, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has been named as adviser in the Inter State Council Secretariat, Minist

Around 15.72 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in July 2022, according to official data released on Friday. The latest data is part of a report -- Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective - July 2022 -- released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). It showed that the gross new enrolments with Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19. From September 2017 to March 2018, around 83.35 lakh new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme. The report said gross new enrolments with ESIC from September 2017 to July 2022 were 7.08 crore. The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). According to the report, net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO stood

Around 15.47 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in June 2022, according to official data released on Thursday. The latest data is part of a report -- Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective - June 2022 -- released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). It showed that the gross new enrolments with Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19. From September 2017 to March 2018, around 83.35 lakh new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme. The report said gross new enrolments with ESIC from September 2017 to June 2022 were 6.92 crore. The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). According to the report, net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO stoo

Around 14.93 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in May 2022, according to official data released on Monday. The latest data is part of a report -- Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective - May 2022 -- released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). It showed that the gross new enrolments with Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19. From September 2017 to March 2018, around 83.35 lakh new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme. The report said gross new enrolments with ESIC from September 2017 to May 2022 were 6.76 crore. The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). According to the report, net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO stood at

The latest data is part of a report -- Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective - April 2022 -- released by the National Statistical Office (NSO)

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) on Sunday decided its health insurance scheme ESI will be implemented throughout the country by the end of 2022.

From September 2017 to March 2018, around 8.33 million new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme

Around 12.84 lakh new members joined ESIC-run social security scheme in Jan 2021 against 15.34 lakh in the previous month, official data showed on Friday

Around 15.26 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in December 2021 against 10.39 lakh in the previous month, official data showed

Around 10.28 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in November 2021 against 12.39 lakh in the previous month, official data showed on Tuesday