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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-03042025-262243
EXTRAORDINARY
PART III—Section 4
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 272]
NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025/ CHAITRA 12, 1947
EMPLOYEES' STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 4th March, 2025
F.No. R-12/16/9/2022-Policy-Bft-II.—The following draft of certain regulations further to amend the
Employees' State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950, which the Employees' State Insurance Corporation
proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred under section 97 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948
(34 of 1948), is hereby published as required by sub-section (1) of the said section for information of all persons
likely to be affected thereby and notice is hereby given that the said draft regulations will be taken into consideration
after expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification
is published, are made available to the public:-
1. Any objection or suggestion, which may be received from any person in respect of the said draft regulation within
the period specified above, will be considered by the Employees' State Insurance Corporation.
2. The objections and suggestions, if any, may be addressed to Shri Deepak Joshi, Insurance Commissioner (Benefit)
Employees' State Insurance Corporation, Panchdeep Bhawan, C.I.G. Marg, New Delhi- 110002 (e.mail: ac-
benefit@esic.nic.in).
DRAFT REGULATIONS
1. This Regulation may be called Employees' State Insurance (General) Amendment Regulations, 2025.
2. In the Employees' State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950, a new Regulation 103 AA shall be inserted as
under:
Regulation 103 AA: Medical benefit to retired beneficiaries
1. An employee in respect of whom contribution is or was payable for not less than five years after 01.04.2012 and
who subsequently ceased to be covered under the Act due to exceeding the wage limit, superannuating on attaining
the age of superannuation, retiring under a Voluntary Retirement Scheme or taking premature retirement with wages
up to rupees thirty thousand per month on or after 01.04.2017, shall be eligible to receive medical benefit for self and
his/her spouse, subject to:
i. the fulfilment of other conditions of the scheme notified by the Corporation
ii. production of certificate from the employer in the form which may be specified by the Director General
for the purpose.
iii. the payment of contribution at the rate and manner as notified in the scheme by the Corporation
Provided that an Insured person who is availing medical benefit under Rule 60 and 61 of ESI (Central) Rules, 1950
shall also be eligible to receive medical benefit as per sub-regulation (1) for self and his/her spouse on fulfilment of
other conditions of the scheme and payment of contribution at the rate and manner as notified in the scheme by the
Corporation.
2. An employer shall, on demand, issue the certificate as referred to in sub-regulation (1) to person employed by him.
DEEPAK JOSHI, Insurance Commissioner (P&D)
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