A social security meeting was organised by the lIC pension and group scheme unit here on Saturday to mark the social security month, which is observed by the lIC every year in October to spread social and financial security messages among the economically backward people mostly in rural areas.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Amiya Kumar Mohapatra attended the event as the chief guest while Panchayati Raj Department Deputy Secretary Smruti Ranjan Pradhan joined as the guest of honour.
The lIC included 5.03 crore people in its social security scheme by the end of the last financial year. In Odisha, while 50 lakh households under the BPl category are to be covered under the Government sponsored and lIC-run Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, 22 lakh people were covered by last year, it was revealed.
The lIC, Bhubaneswar, aims at covering 15 lakh new households under the social security scheme this year, informed Divisional Manager Akhay Kumar Sahoo.
Former ESIC Commissioner Bimalkanti Sahoo, lIC P& GS Regional Manager (Middle East) Girish Kumar and lIC Bhubaneswar Senior Divisional Manager Shreepati Hansda also spoke.