Employee State Insurance Scheme in Haryana: An Analytical Study

Abstract

Actually, it is an integrated social security scheme engineered to provide social protection to employees in the organized sector and their dependents in contingency such as sickness, maternity, death and disability due to any occupation or employment disease. The fact is that Employee State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) was enacted in 1948 as the first major legislation for social security in India and it was based on the principle of pooling of risks and resources which provided full guarantee for medical facilities to the beneficiaries in the different states of the country. In addition to this, it promised adequate cash compensation to insured person for loss of wages or earning capacity in time of physical distress arising out of any illness, employment injury or loss of employment. This scheme is executed by the Employee State Insurance Corporation set up by the Government of India on 24^th Feb. 1952. The main source of fund of the corporation is the contributions rose from employed covered under ESI Scheme and their employees as a fixed percentage of wages which may be revised during intervals of the years. The ESI Act- 1948 envisages the setting up of the machinery for the effective functioning of this scheme in the country including the state of Haryana.