Employers and employees were briefed about the recent initiatives of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation for effective reflection of social security here recently.
Employers were motivated to derive optimum utility of e-Biz platform wherein registration was possible through the portal of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) for ease of business and reduction in transaction cost; and online payment of ESI contribution through the payment gateway of State Bank of India and 58 other banks launched earlier this year.
R. Keshav Das, Director, ESIC, Coimbatore Sub-Region, who addressed the stake-holders, said the State Executive Committee of the Corporation, besides exercising powers to improve medical infrastructure at primary level and monitoring functioning of Insurance Medical Practitioners, approves empanelment, de-empanelment, and blacklisting of hospitals for secondary care as well as super speciality treatment.
With effect from 2014-15, the ceiling on medical expenditure to be reimbursed to States has been raised from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,000 per insured person per year.
The ceiling will further be increased by Rs. 150 per year for the next five years, he added.
In the Coimbatore Sub-region encompassing Coimbatore, The Nilgiris, Tirupur and Erode districts, there were close to six lakh insured persons, Mr. Das said, adding that the problems with delivery of medical benefits: sickness, disablement, dependents, maternity and medical benefits, were being addressed.
All benefits are met from the employer-employee contribution - 1.75 per cent (of salary paid) by employees and 4.75 per cent by employers. Employees earning less than Rs. 137 a day as daily wages are exempted from paying their share of contribution.
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Other benefits comprise confinement expenses, funeral expenses, vocational rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation, unemployment allowance, and skill upgrade training.
Grievances of stakeholders were being redressed regularly in regional offices, sub-regional offices and ESIC hospitals on second Wednesday of every month and at branch offices on second Friday of every month, he said.
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