The State Cabinet on Monday approved an amendment to the Odisha Employees' State Insurance Medical Service (Method of Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2014 to withdraw the Level-I and Level-II grades of Joint Director so as to enable them to avail promotional opportunity at par with their counterparts in the Health & Family Welfare Department to the next higher grades as well as for regulations of their service conditions to provide thereby better healthcare to the industrial workers across the State under the ESI scheme.
With this, the burden on the State Exchequer will be shared between the State Government and the ESI Corporation in the agreed ratio of 1:7 which shows that the State Government bears only 1/8 of the expenditure.