The document discusses Employees' State Insurance (ESI), a self-financing social security and health insurance scheme for Indian workers established in 1948 that is managed by the ESI Corporation and provides medical and cash benefits to employees and their families through a large network of offices and hospitals. ESI requires employers to contribute 4.75% of wages and employees to contribute 1.75% of wages for those earning 15,000 rupees or less per month, with the scheme originally proposed in 1923 and enacted in 1948 and now covering over 15.5 million employees.

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY
KAKINADA
Subject :MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS
Topic : Employees' State Insurance
Submitted by
G.BALAGI
14021E0026

2. Employees' State Insurance
Employees' State Insurance is a self-financing social security and
health insurance scheme for Indian workers.
For all employees earning ₹15000 (US$220) or less per month as
wages, the employer contributes 4.75 percent and employee
contributes 1.75 percent, total share 6.5 percent.

3. Employees' State Insurance
.
This fund is managed by the ESI Corporation (ESIC) according to
rules and regulations stipulated there in the ESI Act 1948.
 which oversees the provision of medical and cash benefits to the
employees and their family through its large network of branch
offices, dispensaries and hospitals throughout India.

4. History
In March 1923 before Indian independence B.N.Adarkar
economist and later Governor of the Reserve Bank of India,
was appointed by the Government of India to create a health
insurance scheme for industrial workers.
 A year later the report he submitted
became the basis for the
Employment State Insurance (ESI) Act of 1948.

5. History
 The ESI Act was enacted in India in 1948, but come into
reality from 25 February 1952, established in Kanpur and Delhi.
It is now applicable to all establishments having 10 or more
workers including educational institutions, hospitals, etc.,
covering 15.5 million employees working with about 450,000
employers.

6. In ESI scheme, a worker in insurable employment is called
insured person (IP).
 Insured persons and their family are entitled to different types of
benefits.
 The benefits are broadly classified into two:
(1) Medical benefits and
(2) cash benefits
Benefits

7. Recent years have seen an increasing role of information
technology in ESI, with the introduction of Pehchan smart cards
in 'Project Panchdeep‘.
 India's largest e-governance project. In addition to insured
workers, poor families eligible under the can also avail facilities
in ESI hospitals and dispensaries.