Bhubaneswar: The Centre has sanctioned three new ESIC hospitals in Odisha, informed Union Minister of State (MoS) for Labour and Employment Rameswar Teli.
The three new ESIC hospitals sanctioned include one 150-bedded at Bhubaneswar, one 100-bedded at Duburi in Jajpur and one 30-bedded at Paradip, Teli added.
Teli made the announcement while joining hands with Union Minister of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan in formally inaugurating the ESIC hospital at Angul and Sub Regional Office of ESIC at Jharsuguda.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Pradhan said that the hospital today at Angul had acted as a Sanjeevani for the people of Odisha and saved many valuable lives during the second wave of Covid pandemic.
Angul and Jharsuguda have many industries, so also the labour force and hence it is the duty of the government to ensure their well-being and this hospital as well as the sub-regional office will serve that purpose, Pradhan added.
The hospital aims at benefiting more than 3 lakh people in Angul and adjacent districts with super-specialty services while the sub-regional office at Jharsuguda is aims at benefiting around 2 lakh workers in 13 districts of Odisha.
Teli further informed that 27 crore labourers including 1.3 crore from Odisha from the un-organised sector have registered in the e-Shram portal and various social sector benefits are being extended to them.
He also talked about the PM Shram Yogi Maandhan Yojana and said that a new facility is being introduced through which employers of workers like the housemaids in the unorganized sector can contribute their share of pension for the concerned workers.
The State Minister for Labour & ESI, Srikanta Sahu, MPs Mahesh Sahoo, Suresh Pujari and DG, ESIC, MS Bhatia were also present on the occasion.
