Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESIC)

The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 is devised so as to provide social protection to workers in contingencies such as illness, long term sickness or any other health risk due to exposure to employment injury or occupational hazards. ESI Act is the first of its kind in India as it introduces the compulsory insurance of a specified class of wage earners against certain inevitable risk and to uphold the human dignity of fellow feelings in contingencies, such as death, disease or physical disability. Employees' State Insurance Corporation i.e. ESIC is a Government body formed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, India which dedicatedly operates under this Act.