The officials should expedite the disbursal of medical bills to the families of the labours and the pending cases should be disposed off soon. labour Minister Harsih Chandra Durgapal instructed while convening a review meeting of officials of employee State insurance and employee State Insurance Corporation at Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday.
He said that the officials should enter the year 2015 with good message and they should work fast for the completion of projects of dispensaries. The Minister said that the officers should not create an environment of loss of dialogue with the workers and should make surprise inspections of the dispensaries located in their areas.
He regretted the fact that Uttarakhand despite being a disaster prone area do not have an ESI hospital. Durgapal said that he is regularly getting complaints that the hospitals demand money from the employees in advance.The minister ordered that the pending works in the construction of dispensaries at Selaqui and Tallanagar should be expedited so that the working class gets their benefit.
The minister was told that the work on the dispensaries at IT Park, Sahasthradhara road, Doiwala and Khatima is complete on which he said that the officers should scout land for new dispensaries also.The officers also told him that payments to the eligible insured persons and their families have been made till the month of November 2014-15 on which Durgapal said that the process of insurance payments should be streamlined so that the beneficiaries get the fast payments.
Durgapal said that the pending bills of ESI of different hospitals should also be processed fast so that the hospital listed under the ESI not conveys their inability for treatment to the employees. The minister expressed his displeasure at the fact that despite under tie up with the state government many private hospitals show their reluctance for treating patients and ordered the officials that they should ensure proper action against such hospitals.