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Employees healthcare top priority: Dattatreya
Union Minister of State for Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has launched Jana Suraksha vehicles, which are being run by Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to create awareness among the unorganised sector on health here on Saturday.
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has launched Jana Suraksha vehicles, which are being run by Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to create awareness among the unorganised sector on health here on Saturday.
Speaking on the occasion, Dattatreya said that they had started this vehicle facility in Hyderabad on an experimental basis. These vehicles would be launched nationwide later, he said.
The Jana Suraksha vehicles would work for the welfare of unorganised workers and to create awareness on health among them, he said, assuring that ESI laws would be implemented to the workers belonging to organised and unorganised sectors.
The BJP government would strive for the comprehensive development of unorganised sector workers, he stated. About one million workers belonging to unorganised sector were dying due to lack of awareness on their health, the Minister added.
The BJP government had taken up several amendments in laws for the sake of workers working in hazardous industries, handloom and building construction sectors. He said the BJP government had taken up 61 amendments and announced that his Ministry would launch nine more Jana Suraksha vehicles across Telangana later.
He said the Ministry decided to transform the ESI health centres as 100-bed centres where 50,000 workers were registered, 200-bed centres where one lakh workers were registered, 300-bed centres where there were three lakh workers and 600-bed centres where there were five lakh workers.
He said the Centre would set up 300-bed health centre in Hyderabad and 500-bed health centre in Visakhapatnam. He said that his Ministry would expand ESI services up to 31 districts in the State.
Dattatreya said that the Centre had taken up amendments to the Employees Provident Fund Deposit Link Insurance Scheme. He said that Rs 18,119 crore was deposited in this scheme by March 2016. The government paid Rs 253 crore to the workers under this scheme in the year 2015-16.
He said that Rs 2.5 lakh insurance amount would be availed by family members of the worker in case the worker died after he joined as subscriber in this scheme within one year.
He said that Rs 30,000 would be paid to the workers completed 20 years of service. The Union Minister said every year about 1.78 lakh workers completed their 20 years of service, and 35,000 workers their one-year service.
He said the government was extending ESI health services to 54 lakh Provident Fund pensioners. The Minister said the government was trying to bring the hamalis, railway outsourcing workers and domestic helpers under ESI scheme.
The Minister further informed that ESI cards would be issued to 1,000 workers in a programme to be held here on April 22 and assured health cards.
