Effectiveness of Employees’ State Insurance Scheme among Employees in Cochin City

Employee State Insurance is a self financing social security and health insurance scheme for Indian workers. The ESI Act applies to the non seasonal factories and non power using factories and establishments employing twenty or more persons. The employer and the employee contribute to the scheme for the benefit of employee. The ESI Act encompasses certain health related eventualities that the worker are generally exposed to such as sickness, maternity, disablement ,unemployment, death due to employment injury.