ESIC seeks to cover every district in nation, 10 crore workers by 2022
19 Feb 2018 11:12 PM IST
new delhi: The ESI Corporation during its 173rd meeting held on February under the Chairmanship of Minister of State for Labour & Employment (I/C) Santosh Kumar Gangwar has taken some very important decisions towards improvements in its service delivery mechanism.
The other dignitaries participating in the meeting were M Sathiyavathy, IAS, Secretary, Labour & Employment, Govt. of India; Raj Kumar, IAS, Director General, ESIC; Heeralal Samariya, IAS, Additional Secretary; Arun Goel, IAS, Additional Secretary & FA; and Sandhya Shukla, IA & AS, Financial Commissioner, ESIC, ESI Corporation Members representing Members of Parliament, Employees' & Employers' Federation/Association representatives of State Governments and officers of MoL&E & ESIC.
The ESIC Vision 2022 envisages expansion of ESI Scheme in each district of the country with target of covering 10 crores workers by 2022. The modalities and the course for achieving the target were deliberated upon in the meeting. In this regard, decision to form a sub-committee for fine tuning and for active participation of other stakeholders has also been taken.
To strengthen medical care services in U P, the decision of taking over of ESI Hospital, Barielly by ESI Corporation, was taken. Besides, approval for setting up of ESIC Super Specialty Hospital at Bhubneshwar and sanction of 100 bedded ESI Hospital in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh were also reported upon in the meeting. ESI Corporation further decided for continuation of 50 bedded ESIC Model Hospital at Phulwarisharif, Patna upgradable to 100 beds.
The decision for establishing Modified Employer's Utilisation Dispensary (Modified EUD) on pilot basis was also taken in the meeting, with the objective of strengthening of stake holders participation in the expansion of primary care services of ESIC. In order to improve the delivery of health care services and ensuring proper use of resources available in ESIC Hospitals, decision of establishing Vigilance Inspection Unit in ESIC Hospitals has been taken. Further, new sub-regulations were added in ESIC Regulation for devising a mechanism for capturing Aadhar number of Insured Persons and their family members at the time of registration by employer.
In the meeting, the Revised Estimates for the year 2017-18, Budget Estimates for the year 2018-19 and Performance Budget for the year 2018-19 were also deliberated upon and approved.
Besides above, around 25 other Agenda Items pertaining to improvement in services/benefits to Insured Persons and other administrative matters were deliberated upon and approved during the meeting.
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