ESIC UTTAR PRADESH REGION |
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RAJIV GANDHI SHRAMIK KALYAN YOJNA
RAJIV GANDHI SHRAMIK KALYAN YOJNA
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| The ESI Corporation launched new scheme called Rajiv Gandhi
Shramik Kalyan Yojna with effect from April 1, 2005. This scheme provides for
unemployment allowance for the employees covered under ESI Scheme who are
rendered unemployed involuntarily due to closure of the factory/ retrenchment /
permanent invalidity arising out of non-employment injury. Under this scheme,
the eligible workers are entitled to a daily rate of allowance and medical care
for self and family during the period of unemployment up to a maximum of one
year during their entire service. The
allowances can be availed of in one spell or in different spells of not less
than one month |
| Employment eligibility conditions:- |
The insured person should have contributed under the ESI
Scheme for a minimum period of three years prior to loss of employment.
Unemployment allowance shall cease to be payable from the date the
insured person gets re-employed elsewhere. |
| Rate of
unemployment allowance: |
| The daily rate of
unemployment allowance shall be the “ standard benefit rate” as specified in the
table of Standard Benefit Rates under Rule-54 of ESI ( Central) Rules 150,
corresponding to the average daily wage drawn by the said insured person during
the last four completed contribution periods, immediately preceding the date of
unemployment |
| Procedure:
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| The allowance shall be
payable in the form of monthly payments by Branch Offices of ESI Corporation
where the employee was registered on submission of a claim in prescribed form
duly supplied by relevant documents after approval of the Regional / Sub
Regional Office.
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