ESIC-run social security scheme adds 1.3 million members in March

Over 13 lakh new members joined the Employees‘State Insurance Corporation or ESIC-run social security scheme in March 2023, according to an official data released recently.

The latest data is part of a report — Payroll Reporting in India: An Employment Perspective – March, 2023 — released by the National Statistical Office (NSO).

It showed that the gross new enrolments with ESIC rose to 1.49 crore in 2021-22, from 1.15 crore in 2020-21. It was 1.51 crore in 2019-20 and 1.49 crore in 2018-19.

The report said gross new enrolments with ESIC from September 2017 to March 2023 were 8.6 crore.

The NSO report is based on the payroll data of new subscribers of various social security schemes run by ESIC, the Employees‘ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).