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Facilitating coverage of smaller factories employing 10 or more persons. |
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Enhancing age limit of dependant children for eligibility to Dependants Benefit from 18 years to 25 years. |
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Extending medical benefit to dependant minor brother/sister in case of IPs not having own family and whose parents are also not alive. |
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Streamlining the procedure for assessment of dues from defaulting employers. |
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Providing an Appellate Authority within the Corporation against assessment to avoid unnecessary litigation.
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Continuing medical benefit to insured persons retiring under VRS scheme or taking premature retirement. |
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Treating commuting accidents as employment injury. |
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Streamlining the procedure for grant of exemptions. |
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Third party participation in commissioning and running of the Hospitals. |
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Opening of medical/dental/paramedical/nursing colleges to improve quality of medical care. |
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Making an enabling provision for extending medical care from under utilised ESI hospitals to other beneficiaries covered under the Rashtriya Swasthaya Bima Yojana introduced by the Ministry of Labour & Employment w.e.f. 01.04.2008 or any other scheme framed by the central government, on payment of user charges. |
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Reducing duration of notice period for extension of the Act to new classes of establishments from six months to one month.
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Empowering State governments to set up autonomous Corporations for administering medical benefit in the States for bringing autonomy and efficiency in the working.
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Insurance Inspectors will now be known as Social Security Officers. |
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Wage Ceiling for coverage enhanced to Rs. 15,000/- per month. |
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Disabled employees drawing wages upto Rs. 25,000/- per month are coverable under the Act. |
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Amount of Funeral Expenses enhanced to Rs. 10,000/-. |
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PDB/DB Rate enhanced w.e.f. 01.08.2009. |
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Conveyance Allowance of Rs. 100/- will be paid to PDB Beneficiaries who visit the Branch Office personally to submit Life Certificate, w.e.f. 04.08.2011. |
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