Process to Get ESIC Pehchan Card Or ESI Card

To Get ESIC Pehchan Card : ESIC card is also known as Pehchan card or PIC. Employee state insurance is a social welfare scheme to help the employees whose gross salary is below 21000 Rs. There are number of ESIC dispensaries and hospitals are helping the employees by giving medical treatment to them & also to their family members.

Earlier ESIC scheme was applicable to employees whose salary is less than 15000 Rs but in order to cover more number of employees the ceiling limit increased to 21000 Rs.

ESIC Percentages : 1.75% of employee’s gross salary will be contributed every month towards ESIC and 4.75% of employee gross salary will be contributed by employer towards  ESIC.

Benefits Of ESIC:

Employees who are covering under ESIC scheme will get the following benefits.

1. Medical Benefit
2. Sickness Benefit
3. Maternity Benefit
4. Disablement Benefit
5. Funeral Expenses

How To Get ESIC Pehchan Card Or ESI Card

 in order to get all those benefits employees need to have ESIC Pehchan card. So every employer must give print counter foil which will be downloaded from employer ESIC portal.

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Print counter foil is a Pehchan card application form. On this  print counter foil employee doesn’t need to write any thing, every thing will be filled by employer’s HR department and employee need to submit a family photograph.

Family photograph should contain all the members who are going to take Pehchan card and this family photo will be attested by employer, and employee also need to sign on this ESIC Pehchan card application form.

After completing all this formalities employee need to take this print counter foil to their nearest ESIC office along with the family members. In ESIC office they will take photograph of insured person’s family and the card will be handed over to insured person i.e employee with in 20 days, by courrier or employer or some times employee need to visit ESIC office to get ESIC Pehchan card.

In case, if group of employees in an organization want to take ESIC cards collectively then the employer need to write a letter to ESIC office to send an officer to take photo graphs of all employees including their family members for Pehchan card purpose. So this is the process to get ESIC pehchan card.