Dear All,
Below are the new amendments in ESIC:
1. Facilitating coverage of smaller factories employing 10 or more persons irrespective of whether power is used in the manufacturing process or not.
2. Enhancing age limit of dependent children for eligibility for dependents' benefits from 18 years to 25 years.
3. Extending medical benefits to dependent minor brothers/sisters in case of insured persons not having their own family and whose parents are also not alive.
4. Streamlining the procedure for assessment of dues from defaulting employers by prescribing a time limit of 5 years for the same.
5. Providing an Appellate Authority within the corporation against assessment to avoid unnecessary litigation.
6. Continuing medical benefits to insured persons retiring under VRS scheme or taking premature retirement.
7. Treating commuting accidents as employment injuries.
8. Streamlining the procedure for the grant of exemptions.
9. Allowing third-party participation in commissioning and running of the Hospitals.
10. Opening of Medical/dental/paramedical/nursing colleges to improve the quality of medical care.
11. Making an enabling provision for extending medical care from under-utilized ESI Hospitals to other beneficiaries on payment of user charges.
12. Empowering state governments to set up autonomous corporations for administering medical benefits in the states for bringing autonomy and efficiency in the working.
Regards,
K. SAIKISHORE
09949423193
From India
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54Below are the new amendments in ESIC:
1. Facilitating coverage of smaller factories employing 10 or more persons irrespective of whether power is used in the manufacturing process or not.
2. Enhancing age limit of dependent children for eligibility for dependents' benefits from 18 years to 25 years.
3. Extending medical benefits to dependent minor brothers/sisters in case of insured persons not having their own family and whose parents are also not alive.
4. Streamlining the procedure for assessment of dues from defaulting employers by prescribing a time limit of 5 years for the same.
5. Providing an Appellate Authority within the corporation against assessment to avoid unnecessary litigation.
6. Continuing medical benefits to insured persons retiring under VRS scheme or taking premature retirement.
7. Treating commuting accidents as employment injuries.
8. Streamlining the procedure for the grant of exemptions.
9. Allowing third-party participation in commissioning and running of the Hospitals.
10. Opening of Medical/dental/paramedical/nursing colleges to improve the quality of medical care.
11. Making an enabling provision for extending medical care from under-utilized ESI Hospitals to other beneficiaries on payment of user charges.
12. Empowering state governments to set up autonomous corporations for administering medical benefits in the states for bringing autonomy and efficiency in the working.
Regards,
K. SAIKISHORE
09949423193
From India
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