Lok Sabha Question No. 236 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-02-05
Subject: Criteria for Appointment of Officials in ESIC
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 236 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.02.2024

## CRITERIA FOR APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIALS IN ESIC

†236. SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

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

(a)the details of the criteria laid down for appointments in Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC);

- (b)whether several higher officials of ESIC are posted at the same place for so many years;
- (c)if so, the State-wise details thereof particularly in respect of the State of Maharashtra;
- (d)the details of policy/guidelines regarding the period of posting of an official at a place and transfer after a certain period of service from that place; and

(e)the number of senior officials transferred each of the last five years?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

(a) to (e): As per Section 17(2)(a) of the Employees' State Insurance (ESI)  Act,  1948,  "The  method  of  recruitment,  salary  and  allowances, discipline and other conditions of service of the members of the staff of the  Corporation  shall  be  such  as  may  be  specified  in  the  regulations made  by  the  Corporation  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  orders applicable  to  the  officers  and  employees  of  the  Central  Government drawing corresponding scales of pay.

As per power conferred in aforesaid Section, the Employees' State Insurance Corporation had notified the Employees' State Insurance  Corporation  (Staff  and  Conditions  of  Service)  Regulations, 1959 which has now been superseded by Employees' State Insurance Corporation (Staff and Conditions of Service) Regulations, 2023.

ESI  Corporation  has  also  been  conferred  power  to  make recruitment regulations as per sub-section (1) of section 97 read with clause (xxi) of sub-section (2) and sub- section (2A) of that section and sub-section  (2)  of  section  17  of  the  Employees'  State  Insurance  Act, 1948.

In pursuance of aforesaid provisions the Recruitment Regulations of the posts in ESIC are notified from time to time.

The  appointment  to  the  posts  in  ESIC  is  made  as  per provisions laid down in Recruitment Regulations of concerned post.

Transfers  in  respect  of  higher  officials  (Group  'A'  level officers on the administrative side) are carried out at regular intervals keeping in view the transfer policy and the administrative exigencies.

As per extant transfer policy the Annual General Transfers of higher officers are effected based on tenure completed at a station as on 31 st  March of every year with the prescribed tenure as under:

1. Maximum tenure (period of posting) for Delhi NCR station is 9 years and for other stations is 7 years.
2. Tenure (period of posting) as Head of the Office is fixed for 3 years.
3. The normal tenure for posting to the posts of Dean and Medical Superintendent in a medical institution will be five years which may be extended by the competent authority with specific reasons for further period of two years. They can be given another tenure of two years in the same institution for clinical posting.

Details  of  senior  officers  (Group  'A'  level  officers  on  the administrative side and medical administrative side) transferred during the last five years:

|   Sl. No. |   Period |   Group 'A' level officers on the administrative side |   Group 'A' level officers on the medical administrative side |
|-----------|----------|-------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 |       83 |                                                    08 |                                                          2019 |
|         2 |       29 |                                                    23 |                                                          2020 |
|         3 |       41 |                                                    07 |                                                          2021 |
|         4 |      119 |                                                    29 |                                                          2022 |
|         5 |      227 |                                                    08 |                                                          2023 |

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