ESIC Coverage in States

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) under its 2nd Generation Reforms ESIC-2.0 has decided to open health scheme for selected group of unorganized workers like rickshaw-puller/auto-rickshaw drivers in selected urban/metropolitan areas by 30th November, 2015. 

The Central Government has approved inclusion of the self-employed workers like Auto Rickshaw Drivers etc. in the “Other Beneficiaries and members of their families medical Scheme, 2010” framed under Section 73-B of the ESI Act, 1948. The order has been issued for registration process in Delhi. 

This information given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.