ESIC rendering yeoman’s service to employees and labourers in the private sector

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, January 8, 2026

The Employees State Insurance Corporation , launched way back in the year 1948 for social security coverage of workers in the private sector companys including MSMEs has been rendering yeoman’s service all over the country through a slew of benefit schemes. This includes cash benefit schemes such as Sickness Benefit (SB) for medical treatment, Temporary Disablement Benefit (TDB), Permanent Disablement Benefit (PDB), Dependants Benefit (DB)-meant for family members of low-paid workers, maternity benefit and Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana (ABVKY ). Under the ABVKY workers retrenched by shut down companys receive 25% of the last pay drawn for three months.

While the details of the scheme are not available in the statement released by Samar Das, Branch Manager of ESIC , Agartala the most important among the schemes is the medical benefit as part of which categorised workers can received full medical benefits if he or she undergoes treatment in ESIC’s own hospital and full reimbursement of expenses if the treatment is received from listed other hospitals.

The statement issued by Branch Manager, Agartala, Samar Das, the ESIC authority have disbursed Rs 6,71,756.00 for extending benefits to registered workers in Tripura during the month of November 2025. While this is only one month’s statistics the annual expenditure on the head of workers cash benefits for the financial year 2025-2026 will be much more. Giving the break-down of the cash benefits given, the statement said that Rs 1,40,473.00 has been given in cash on the head of sickness benefit (SB), Rs 63,406 towards temporary disablement benefit (TDB), Rs 77,068 for permanent disablement benefit (PDB), Rs 1,16,611.00 on Dependants benefit (DB), Rs 2,54,436.00 for maternity benefits (MB), Rs 15000.00 for funeral benefits, Rs 4762 on Covid-19 relief scheme.

However, sources in the ESIC said that a large number of private company employees are yet to register their names for having access to the benefits because their owners are unwilling to pay their share of contribution to the ESIC. The defaulting organisations include a number of media outlets also. “We have penalised a number of private companys including media houses for their anti-workers role and more will come under the net unless they register their names ; we are preparing to take drastic action” sources said.

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