Whether ESIC Act is applicable or not?
Arihant AC
(Querist) 13 January 2009
This query is : Resolved
Dear Experts,
Whether ESIC is applicable to Schools, Colleges running by trust, Private Hospitals running by either private or trust?
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NAC
Manish Singh
(Expert) 13 January 2009
there has been no express provisions which binds a duty on a caritable trust or society to get registered under the act.
still you look into your state's notification concerning the list of establishments which have been notified under the act.
AEJAZ AHMED
(Expert) 14 January 2009
Dear Sir,
COVERAGE UNDER THE ESI ACT, 1948
The Act was originally applicable to non-seasonal factories using power and employing 20 or more persons; but it is now applicable to non-seasonal power using factories employing 10 or more persons and non-power using factories employing 20 or more persons.
Under Section 1(5) of the Act, the Scheme has been extended to shops, hotels, restaurants, cinemas including preview theatre, road motor transport undertakings and newspaper establishment employing 20 or more persons.
The existing wage-limit for coverage under the Act, is Rs.10,000/- per month (with effect from 1.10.2006).
AREAS COVERED
The ESI Scheme is being implemented area-wise by stages. The Scheme has already been implemented in different areas in the following States/Union Territories
STATES
All the States except Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.
UNION TERRITORIES
Delhi, Chandigarh and Pondicherry
Hiralal Das
(Expert) 08 April 2009
Thanks all of you the ld. members and the author.
I think your valuable opinions will assist everybody to solve their problem/matter in question properly.
