Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)

Mangaluru, March 19: ESI scheme provides certain benefits to stakeholders of the scheme and their families under ESI Act 1944 in cases of sickness, maternity, temporary or permanent disablement, occupational disease or death due to employment injury, resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity-total or partial. The scheme provides cash benefits instead of salaries.

The scheme also provides unlimited treatment to the employees and their dependents even when the expenditure is exorbitant. The benefits depend on the number of days the employee is employed. The employers upload the attendance and salary details of the employees on the ESI website. The contributions have to be submitted within 42 days after the last date as per ESI Act regulation. In other words, the contribution for April 2019 to September 2019 should be made by November 11, 2019, and the contribution from October 2019 to March 2020 should be made by May 11, 2020.

The rules were published in the ESIC portal in 2019. Submission of contributions after November 11, 2019 for contributions made till September 2019 is restricted. However, considering the requests of stakeholders, groups and associations who did not submit the contributions for the period April 2019 to September 2019 on time, they have been allowed a one-time relaxation. They may submit them till May 15, 2020.

The relaxation applies only to the contributions that conclude until September 2019. There will be no more relaxations. The relaxation does not apply to any other old or new contributions, stated S Sivaramakrishnan, director in charge of ESI, Mangaluru in a press release on March 19.