Covering 5.64 lakh employees in Telangana, the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in Telangana is one of the best performing States in the country while ESI covered employees have got a tremendous boost with 50% seats reserved for their children at the ESIC Medical College in Sanatnagar.
5.64 lakh covered
Arun Pandey, Regional Director, ESIC, Hyderabad said 5.64 lakh employees were covered in 5,262 units while 44,468 construction workers were also benefiting in 1,149 units.
The ESI scheme is now extended to entire Telangana since August 2016, he said at a press conference here on Saturday.
Mr. Pandey said enhancement of wage ceiling from ₹15,000 to ₹21,000 from 2007 January has also brought more people into ESI net.
Biggest benefits
Some of the biggest benefits have been enhancement of maternity benefit leave period from 12 weeks to 26 weeks from this year and enhancement of duration of unemployment allowance under RGSKY from 12 months to 24 months has benefited thousands of people.
The ESIC Medical College, Sanathnagar is now open to children of ESI beneficiaries and they can secure a seat at a fee of just ₹24,000 per annum. This year 48 children of ESI insured people have been admitted in the college.
“Getting into a medical college for this segment was unthinkable earlier.”
Model dispensary
Some of the other measures include ESIC Model Dispensary cum Diagnostic Centre at Jeedimetla, enhancement of ceiling on medical expenditure from ₹2,150 to ₹3,000 per annum per family, mandatory annual preventive health check-up for people above 40 years and special OP services for senior citizens and differently-abled persons.
T. Narsing Rao, Deputy Director and P.J. Sudhakar, Addl. DG, PIB also spoke.
