Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has announced that the Ministry has proposed to set up three 100-bedded hospitals in Ramagundam, Warangal and Ghoshamahal (Hyderabad) and asked the State Government to allot land.

Following a review meeting with the Telangana State Labour Minister Nayini Narasimha Reddy and other officials with the Central Labour Ministry officials on Saturday, he said the ESIC dispensaries at Tandur, Doulatabad, Khammam, Suryapet, Maheswaram, Siddipet and Kalvakurthy would be upgraded to 6-bedded hospitals and Rs 10 crore will be provided for each hospital for construction and infrastructure facilities.

BEEDI WORKERS

Dattatreya said the Ministry was planning to construct 10,000 houses for beedi workers in the State.

Mentioning about welfare measures, he said all the beedi workers’ hospitals located in the State would be merged with the ESIC Hospitals.

He announced the housing subsidy for the beedi workers will be increased from Rs 40,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh.

The Centre was also planning to provide the services of the Employees Provident Fund and ESI facilities to the beedi workers.

Under Social Security Scheme 18 lakh contract labourers would be covered under the services of ESIC. In this regard, a decision has to be taken after consulting the ESIC board officials.

Dattatreya said a decision has to be taken on the request of the Telangana Government to set up two Sub Regional ESIC Centres at Ramagundam and Kothagudem and one Employees Provident Fund Regional office at Khammam.

The Union Minister said the Centre was planning to provide social security for construction workers like ESI and EPF.