Lok Sabha Question No. 247 (STARRED), answered on 2022-03-21
Subject: ESIC Hospitals/Dispensaries
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Krupal Balaji Tumane, Arvind Ganpat Sawant

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 247

TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2022

## ESIC HOSPITALS/DISPENSARIES

†247. SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE: SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)the number of Employees' State Insurance Corporation(ESIC) hospitals/ dispensaries set up in the country including Maharashtra, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu along with the plan of the Government to increase the number of the said hospitals/ dispensaries;
- (b)whether the Government proposes to include ESIC Health Scheme in  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Jan  Arogya  Yojana  and  if  so,  the  details thereof;
- (c)whether  the  number  of  workers  covered  under  ESIC  is  constantly increasing and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)the  measures  being  taken  by  the  Government  to  cover  more beneficiaries under ESIC;
- (e)the steps taken by the Government to improve the medical services being provided by ESIC in the country; and
- (f)the steps taken by the Government to set up new hospitals/Dispensaries of ESIC in the country and to upgrade the old hospitals/dispensaries?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BHUPENDER YADAV)

(a) to (f):  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. ***                                               ******

STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (f)  OF  LOK SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  247  FOR  21.03.2022  BY  SHRI KRUPAL  BALAJI  TUMANE  AND  SHRI  ARVIND  GANPAT  SAWANT REGARDING ESIC HOSPITALS/DISPENSARIES.

- (a): There are 160 Employees' State Insurance (ESI) hospitals, 1517 ESI dispensaries and 76 Dispensary-cum-Branch Offices (DCBOs) in the country.  State wise details including in Maharashtra, Dadra & Nagar  Haveli  and  Daman  &  Diu  are  at  Annexure-I.  Expansion  of medical  infrastructure  is  an  on-going  and  continuous  activity  and depends  upon  various  factors  including  concentration  of  Insured Persons  (IPs)  in  an  area  and  proposals  received  from  the  State Government.
- (b): Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has collaborated with Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) in 157 districts of the country for providing cashless medical services to its beneficiaries through PMJAY empaneled hospitals.  State-wise details are at Annexure-II.

## (c): The details of enrolment of Insured Persons under the ESI Scheme are as under:

| Year    |   No. of Insured Persons |
|---------|--------------------------|
| 2016-17 |                 31962910 |
| 2017-18 |                 34331300 |
| 2018-19 |                 34967080 |
| 2019-20 |                 34144140 |
| 2020-21 |                 33919370 |

- (d): Steps taken by the ESIC to enhance coverage under ESI are as follows:-
- i. The ESI Scheme has been fully extended to 441 districts where it was partially implemented. The scheme has also been extended to 154 districts where it is implemented in district headquarters areas and industrial centres.   As a result, the implementation of ESI Scheme has expanded from 393 districts in the year 2015-16 to 595 districts.
- ii. Survey/ inspections are carried out from time to time for coverage of  factories  and  establishments  not  covered  under  the  ESI  Act, 1948.

## (e) & (f): The steps taken by ESI Corporation to improve the medical services are as under:

- i. Bears  entire  expenditure  (within  the  ceiling)  on  medical  care incurred  by  the  State  Government  for  a  period  of  3  years  w.e.f. 2019-20.
- ii. Enhancement of 50% bed strength, if bed occupancy is more than 70% in ESI hospitals for the last three consecutive years.
- iii. Provides Rs.200/- per IP per annum over and above ceiling to the State Government, where the bed occupancy in the ESIS hospitals is more than 70% during the previous financial year.
- iv. Encouraging formation of ESI State level society to enable faster administrative and financial decision making.
- v. Empanelment of government/private hospitals for providing secondary and tertiary care medical services.
- vi. Behavioural training to the staff.
- vii. Feedback system for indoor patients.

ESI  Corporation  has  taken  up  various  steps  to  set  up  new hospitals/dispensaries in the country and to upgrade the old hospitals/dispensaries, which include:-

- Five new ESI hospitals have been commissioned during last three years  at  Angul  (Odisha),  Rudrapur  (Uttarakhand),  Korba,  Raipur
- i. (Chhattisgarh) & Udaipur (Rajasthan).
- ii.
- Bed strength of 13 ESI hospitals has been enhanced.
- iii. Approval has been granted for setting up of 54 new ESI hospitals across the country.
- iv. Approval has been granted for 109 new ESI dispensaries to be run by the State Governments.

It has also been decided by the ESI Corporation to undertake  structural  audit  of  old  hospitals  and  dispensaries  to  plan renovation/ reconstruction accordingly.

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 247 FOR 21.03.2022 BY SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE AND SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT REGARDING ESIC HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES.

State-wise  number  of  ESIC/ESI  Scheme  (ESIS)  hospitals/dispensaries  and  Dispensarycum-Branch Office (DCBOs)

| Sl. No.   | State / Union Territory   | ESI Hospitals (160)   | ESI Hospitals (160)   | Dispensaries (1517)   | Dispensaries (1517)   | Dispensary -cum- Branch Offices (DCBOs)   |
|-----------|---------------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Sl. No.   | State / Union Territory   | ESIC                  | ESIS                  | ESIC                  | ESIS                  | ESIC                                      |
| 1.        | Andaman & Nicobar Island  | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 1                                         |
| 2.        | Andhra Pradesh            | 0                     | 4                     | 0                     | 94                    | 4                                         |
| 3.        | Arunachal Pradesh         | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 1                                         |
| 4.        | Assam                     | 1                     | 1                     | 0                     | 27                    | 1                                         |
| 5.        | Bihar                     | 2                     | 2                     | 0                     | 17                    | 3                                         |
| 6.        | Chandigarh (UT)           | 1                     | 0                     | 0                     | 2                     | 0                                         |
| 7.        | Chhattisgarh              | 2                     | 0                     | 0                     | 42                    | 0                                         |
| 8.        | Delhi (UT)                | 4                     | 0                     | 32                    | 0                     | 0                                         |
| 9.        | Goa                       | 0                     | 1                     | 0                     | 14                    | 0                                         |
| 10.       | Gujarat                   | 4                     | 7                     | 0                     | 103                   | 3                                         |
| 11.       | Haryana                   | 3                     | 4                     | 0                     | 82                    | 2                                         |
| 12.       | Himachal Pradesh          | 1                     | 1                     | 0                     | 17                    | 1                                         |
| 13.       | Jammu &Kashmir            | 1                     | 0                     | 0                     | 8                     | 5                                         |
| 14.       | Jharkhand                 | 2                     | 1                     | 0                     | 21                    | 2                                         |
| 15.       | Karnataka                 | 3                     | 8                     | 0                     | 110                   | 5                                         |
| 16.       | Kerala                    | 3                     | 9                     | 0                     | 145                   | 1                                         |
| 17.       | Madhya Pradesh            | 1                     | 6                     | 0                     | 42                    | 8                                         |
| 18.       | Maharashtra               | 3                     | 12                    | 0                     | 68                    | 13                                        |
| 19.       | Manipur                   | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 1                                         |
| 20.       | Meghalaya                 | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                                         |
| 21.       | Mizoram                   | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                                         |
| 22.       | Nagaland                  | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                                         |
| 23.       | Odisha                    | 2                     | 7                     | 0                     | 41                    | 1                                         |
| 24.       | Puducherry (UT)           | 0                     | 1                     | 0                     | 15                    | 0                                         |
| 25.       | Punjab                    | 1                     | 6                     | 0                     | 69                    | 3                                         |
| 26.       | Rajasthan                 | 4                     | 4                     | 0                     | 74                    | 6                                         |
| 27.       | Sikkim                    | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 3                     | 0                                         |
| 28.       | Tamil Nadu                | 2                     | 8                     | 0                     | 225                   | 1                                         |
| 29.       | Telangana                 | 2                     | 5                     | 0                     | 70                    | 9                                         |
| 30.       | Tripura                   | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 5                     | 0                                         |
| 31.       | Uttar Pradesh             | 6                     | 10                    | 4                     | 94                    | 2                                         |
| 32.       | Uttarakhand               | 1                     | 0                     | 0                     | 30                    | 0                                         |
| 33.       | West Bengal               | 1                     | 13                    | 0                     | 63                    | 3                                         |
|           | Total                     | 50                    | 110                   | 36                    | 1481                  | 76                                        |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 247 FOR 21.03.2022 BY SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE AND SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT REGARDING ESIC HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES.

## State-wise  details  of  the  districts  covered  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Jan  Arogya  Yojana (PMJAY)

|   Sr. No. | State           | Districts covered                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|-----------|-----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Assam           | Biswanath, Chirang, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Sibsagar, and Udalguri (06)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|         2 | Chhattisgarh    | Balod, Baloda Bazar, Balrampur, Bastar, Bemetara, Bijapur, Bilaspur, Dantewada, Dhamtari, Durg, Gariaband, Janjgir- Champa, Jashpur, Kabirdham, Kanker, Kondagaon, Koriya, Mahasamund, Mungeli, Narayanpur, Raigarh, Rajnandgaon, Sukma, Surajpur, Gaurella-Pendra-Marwahi, and Surguja (26)                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|         3 | Jammu & Kashmir | Anantnag, Bandipore, Baramula, Doda, Ganderbal, Kishtwar, Kulgam, Kupwara, Poonch, Rajauri, Ramban, and Shopian (12)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|         4 | Ladakh          | Kargil, and Leh (02)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|         5 | Jharkhand       | Chatra, Dumka, Garhwa, Godda, Gumla, Jamtara, Khunti, Latehar, Lohardaga, Pakaur, Palamu, Pashchimi, Singhbhum, and Simdega (13)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|         6 | Karnataka       | Bidar, Chickmagloor, Chikballapur, and Kodagu (04)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|         7 | Madhya Pradesh  | Agar, Alirajpur, Anuppur, Ashok Nagar, Balaghat, Barwani, Betul, Bhind, Bhopal, Burhanpur, Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Damoh, Datia, Dewas, Dhar, Dindori, Guna, Gwalior, Harda, Hoshangabad, Jabalpur, Jhabua, Katni, Khandwa (East Nimar), Khargone (West Nimar), Mandla, Mandsaur, Morena, Narsinghpur, Neemuch, Panna, Raisen, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Sehore, Seoni, Shahdol, Shajapur, Sheopur, Shivpuri, Sidhi, Singrauli, Tikamgarh, Ujjain, Umaria, and Vidisha (50) |
|         8 | Maharashtra     | Ahmednagar, Akola, Amrawati, Aurangabad, Beed, Bhandara, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Dhule, Gondia, Hingoli, Jalgaon, Jalna, Latur, Mumbai Suburban, Nagpur, Nanded, Nandurbar, Nashik, Osmanabad, Palghar, Parbhani, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Satara, Sindhudurg, Solapur, Thane, Wardha, Washim, Yavatmal, and Gadchiroli (33)                                                                                                                                                           |
|         9 | Manipur         | Imphal East (01)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|        10 | Nagaland        | Mokokchung (01)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|        11 | Rajasthan       | Baran, Churu, Jalore, Karauli, and Pratapgarh (05)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|        12 | Tripura         | Dhalai, Gomati, North Tripura, and Sipahijala (04)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

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