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The government has called for a meeting of the Employees State Insurance Corporation,the main agenda being to make changes in the rules so that ESI is made optional,instead of compulsory as at present. Now each worker has to deposit 1.75% of salary to the ESIC while the employer will have to deposit 4.75% of the salary. Thus the 6.5% of the gross salary will be in the ESIC and the employee will get all benefit of the scheme including access to its more than 150 hospitals and 1,380 dispensaries.
The private health insurance companies have been putting much pressure of the government to get these funds diverted to them. The Government seems to be succumbing to their pressure and thinking of changing the rules making ESI optional. This will, in fact, be taking away the existing social security benefits to the workers, exempting the employers from their responsibility and also favouring the private health insurance companies to mop up funds.
This proposed change is part of the neo-liberal policy of the government and has to be strongly opposed.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
in a shameful way the dictator govt is on their way to snatch the minimum rights of employees….what exactly they want to do is people who are in govt service shall surrender all his/her salaries to the govt so that they could build a self dependent India…in the name of that bullshit Make in India
Remaning 4years NDA govt Will change the entire system…
The working class will certainly fight against these attacks. We have to be part of the same.
fighting back against that government upon whom people of india has shown their deep affection by providing the place of majority government is not only but too hard
It is the responsibility and duty of the elected government to advance the benefit to the people. Otherwise, the same people who voted will act against the government. This is only natural.
Govt. Is fooling middle class people by doing this foolish things.