J&K admn nod to formation of Employees Insurance Society

Tribune News Service

Jammu, February 5

In a significant decision aimed at promoting the welfare of the workforce, the Administrative Council, which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant-Governor (L-G), GC Murmu, today accorded sanction to the formation of the J&K Employees Insurance Society under the Employees Insurance Act 1948.

The Society, upon registration, will serve as a managerial and health care body to provide for effective administration and management of insurance health facilities and insurance benefits to around 2.95 lakh insured persons under the Employees Insurance Scheme. The decision will help enhance the number of insured persons to nearly 6 lakh.

The Society will have the mandate to formulate policies for the code of conduct, capacity building and other training programmes for medical/para-medical staff.

It would also undertake measures to generate awareness among the employers and the employees so that more and more employees/ workers can be brought under the Scheme. Moreover, the Society will be a self-reliant body in terms of staff as it will be able to hire the staff as per the requirement.

The scheme is being implemented by the Employees Insurance Corporation through the Labour Department, covering industrial workers and their families, other establishments like shops, hotels, restaurants, transport and newspaper, cinemas, educational institutions (public, private, aided) run by individuals, trustees, societies, private hospitals, nursing homes etc.

With this decision, the existing eight dispensaries of Employees Insurance Corporation at Rangreth, Khonmoh, Bagh-i-Ali Mardan Khan, Zainakote in Kashmir and Talab Tilo, Kathua, Bari Brahmana and Digiana in Jammu would get further strengthened in terms of staff and equipment thereby enabling these dispensaries to provide better healthcare services.

Land transferred to Industries Dept

The Administrative Council also accorded sanction to the transfer of over 13,665 kanals of government land for the establishment of industrial estates at the identified locations in 10 districts of J&K, which include Kulgam, Kupwara, Anantnag, Baramulla, Bandipora, Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Pulwama and Udhampur.

The decision will help create a land bank for development of new industrial estates and ventures in these districts, thereby providing the much-needed boost to the local entrepreneurs and industry, provide opportunity to aspiring entrepreneurs who wish to set up their own industrial units and expand employment opportunities.

In another decision, the Administrative Council accorded sanction to the transfer of land, measuring 88 kanals and 9 marlas situated in Edipora Bomai village, Zainageer tehsil, in Baramulla district to the Higher Education Department for the establishment of Government Degree College, Bomai.