Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), New Delhi recently inaugurated the buildings of ESIC Sub-Regional Office Kollam, Kerala and ESI Dispensary, Asramam, Kollam. ESIC also laid the foundation stone of ESI Dispensary, Navaikulam & ESIC Branch Office, Kallambalam at Navaikulam, Kollam Kerala.
Kodikunnil Suresh, Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Govt. of India inaugurated these buildings.
Kodikunnil Suresh informed that in the last five months after taking over as Union Minister of State, Labour & Employment, he got completed the projects related to more than five ESI dispensaries, the office of DIMS including ESIC’s Branch Office & Laision Office, Trivandraum, Branch Office at Ernakulam and today the building of SRO, Kollam. He also appreciated the contribution of ESIC’s senior officers, P K Gurudasn, MLA, who got started the work related to SRO, Kollam and N Peethambara Kurup & K Suresh Babu both ESIC Board Members.
This new multistoried building at Asramam, Kollam is for catering to the needs of Insured Persons and employers located in the Districts of Trivendrum, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alleppey. This building is constructed with a total project cost of Rs.5.48 crores. The ESI Dispensary at Asramam, Kollam is well-equipped building for a 4 Doctor ESI Dispensary at Asramam, Kollam with project cost of Rs.3.27 crores. The building has been built in accordance with the norms of MCI.
To reach out to maximum number of beneficiaries, ESIC is focussing on Kerala, and is going to construct a four doctor ESI Dispensary Navaikulam and ESIC Branch Office Kallambalam at Navaikulam to cater the medical care and cash benefit needs of insured persons and their family members who live in the vicinity. The building for ESI Dispensary and Branch office will be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs.3.36 crores. This building will also follow the norms of MCI.
Adv. A Sampath, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Varkala Kahar, Member of Legislative Assembly, Kerala, K Suresh Babu, member, ESIC, SKG Rahate and SC Chakraborty, commissioner, headquarters, K N Balagopal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Prasanna Earnest, Worshipful Mayor (Kollam), PK Gurudasan, member, Legislative Assembly, Kerala, S Jayamohan, president, District Panchayath, P Sreekumari, councillor, Corporation of Kollam, K Suresh Babu, ESIC member, SKG Rahate, financial commissioner, ESIC and SC Chakraborty, commissioner, ESIC were present at the event.