Q. Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) functions under the aegis of which Union Ministry?
Answer: Ministry of Labour and Employment
Notes: After the promulgation of Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, the Indian Government set up ESI Corporation to administer the Scheme. Recently, the Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar announced that Casual and contractual employees of municipal corporations in the country would be covered under ESI Act. With his cover, they will be entitled to sickness benefit, maternity benefit, disablement benefit, dependent’s benefit, etc.