Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nShri Gangwar assured all kinds of support for strengthening\nthe ESI Hospital network in Telangana and sought cooperation from the state\nGovernment to speed up the processes required. He further said the government\nhas initiated several measures to provide monthly pension to the workers in\nunorganized sector. He said the Centre is committed to the welfare of the\nlabour force in the country and has introduced two bills in the Lok Sabha,\nrelated to wage and occupational safety of workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister said steps would be taken to ensure that there\nis no dearth of doctors or para medical staff at ESI hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government has reduced the contribution under the\nEmployees\u2019 State Insurance (ESI) Act to 4% from 6.5%, this move, Shri Gangwar\nsaid, is expected to increase the take home salary of workers as well as reduce\nthe financial burden of employers. This includes a reduction of 1.5% in\nemployers\u2019 contribution to 3.25% from 4.75% and 1% reduction in employees\u2019\ncontribution to 0.75% from 1.75%, the labour minister said. The Minister,\nfurther said that the Government is committed to ensure wage, jobs and social\nsecurity for all workers including those in the unorganized sector.40 crore\nworkers from unorganized sector will be covered under ESIC and EPFO, including\nbuilding construction workers, beedi workers, auto drivers\/rickshaw workers,\nand provided health services under social security scheme, the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of State for Home,\nShri G.Kishan Reddy stressed the need for announcing the ESI Medical College\nand Hospital in Hyderabad a model Hospital. Stating that the Centre released\nRs. 1200 crore for setting up of an AIIMS hospital in Telangana, he asked the\nstate Government to implement Ayushman Bharat programme also so that more\nnumber of people would get health benefits in the state. Shri Kishan Reddy said\nthat ESI Hospitals are providing better medical care than many private\nhospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Union Minister Shri B. Dattatreya, Shri Ch. Malla\nReddy, Minister for Labour and Employment, Government of Telangana, Shri Raj\nKumar, Director General, ESIC, were also present. Earlier, Shri Hiralal\nSamariya, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment welcomed the gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new multi- storied Out Patient Department Block,\nconstructed at a cost of Rs. 124 crores, will provide medical services in\nvarious departments- ENT, Ophthalmology, General Medicine, Dermatology etc The\nmedical college and hospital, one of the six medical colleges, with an intake\nof 100 MBBS admissions, every year has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 534\ncrores. The 150 bed super speciality and 470 bed hospital affiliated to the\ncollege,has been equipped with state of the art equipment like Modular\nOperation Theatres, ICU and provide quality medical facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (I\/C) for Labour and Employment said that the government is planning to set up ESI hospital in all the districts in the country. He said currently, there are over 450 ESI hospitals across the country and plans are afoot to set up hospitals in other districts too. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[552],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-esic-medical-college-and-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}