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A healthcare worker after collects nasal and throat swab sample for coronavirus test through RT-PCR kit, outside the ESI Dispensary hospital in New Delhi. File Photo.
State governments are yet to reimburse the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for treatment of non-ESI beneficiaries at the ESI hospitals that were declared COVID-19 hospitals last year, the Labour and Employment Ministry told the Lok Sabha on Monday.
To a question by MPs Syed Imtiaz Jaleel and Asaduddin Owaisi, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said: “The ESIC has requested the State governments for reimbursement towards treatment of non-ESI beneficiaries as per reimbursement rates prevailing in the State. So far, no State has paid the amount requested by the ESIC.”
ESI, Ayushman Bharat schemes converged
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To help 1.35 crore beneficiaries in 4 states
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To help 1.35 crore beneficiaries in 4 states
Over 1 crore beneficiaries of the Employees’ State Insurance scheme in 113 districts of Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra will be able to avail themselves of cashless medical treatment at hospitals empanelled with Ayushman Bharat, with the Labour Ministry on Wednesday launching the convergence of the two schemes.
Those registered for Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana can get cashless medical treatment at 15 ESIC hospitals and medical colleges in Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, a Ministry statement said.
In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum. The letters were closed using an ancient technique called letterlocking, in which the writing paper is intricately folded and secured to become its own envelopes. Now an international team of researchers has virtually unfolded and unlocked the contents of one of the letters and the findings were published on March 2 in
Nature Communications.
At a meeting in Srinagar, the board, chaired by Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar, “recommended 8.50% annual rate of interest to be credited on EPF accumulations in members’ accounts for the financial year 2020-21”, a statement by EPFO said.