**Executive Summary:**
This notification announces the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana, a welfare measure providing cash compensation to insured employees who become unemployed. The scheme, effective from July 1, 2018, offers up to 90 days of compensation, claimable after three months of unemployment. Objections or suggestions regarding this scheme must be submitted within 30 days of the publication date.
**Key Points / Main Content:**
* **Scheme Overview:**
* Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana provides cash compensation to insured employees under Section 29 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, who become unemployed.
* Compensation is provided once in a lifetime, for a maximum of 90 days.
* **Eligibility Criteria:**
* Employees must have completed two years of insurable employment.
* They must have contributed for at least 78 days in each of the four consecutive contribution periods immediately preceding the claim.
* Unemployment should not be due to misconduct, superannuation, or voluntary retirement.
* **Compensation Details:**
* The relief shall not exceed 25% of the average earning per day.
* Average earning per day is calculated by dividing the total wages received during the four consecutive contribution periods by 730 days.
* **Implementation & Claims:**
* The scheme is effective from July 1, 2018, with payments due after three months.
* Identity will be established from the ESIC database, using a verified Aadhaar number.
* The insured person must submit their claim in Form AB1 (affidavit) through their last employer to their allotted Branch Office.
* **Scheme Duration:**
* The scheme is introduced on a pilot basis for two years.
* **Feedback Mechanism:**
* Objections or suggestions can be submitted within 30 days of the notification's publication to Shri S. Ravichandran, Addl. Commissioner PD, Employees' State Insurance Corporation.
**Impact Analysis:**
**Impacted Stakeholder: Unemployed Insured Employees**
* *Impact:* Provides financial relief during periods of unemployment, up to 90 days, helping to mitigate financial hardship.
* *Action Required:* Ensure eligibility criteria are met, submit claim in Form AB1 through the last employer to the allotted Branch Office after three months of unemployment, and provide necessary documentation (including Aadhaar and bank account details).
**Impacted Stakeholder: Employers**
* *Impact:* Employers are responsible for forwarding the duly filled Form AB1 of their ex-employees to the ESIC branch.
* *Action Required:* Forward Form AB1 to the relevant ESIC Branch Office when an ex-employee applies for relief under this scheme.
**Impacted Stakeholder: Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)**
* *Impact:* ESIC is responsible for implementing and managing the scheme, processing claims, and disbursing payments.
* *Action Required:* Implement the scheme effectively from July 1, 2018, process claims promptly, and consider any feedback received within 30 days of the notification.
Key Entities Referenced
Employees' State Insurance Corporation: A social security organization in India providing benefits to employees in the organized sector. It is the governing body that introduced and will oversee the Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana.
Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana: A scheme providing cash compensation to insured persons who are unemployed, under Section 19 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948.
Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948: An act of the Indian Parliament providing for health insurance of employees.
Section 29: Section 29 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, which defines the scope of coverage of employees under the act.
Section 97: Section 97 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, which grants the Employees' State Insurance Corporation certain powers.
Shri S. Ravichandran: Additional Commissioner PD, Employees' State Insurance Corporation, to whom objections and suggestions regarding the notification should be addressed.
Panchdeep Bhawan, C.I.G Marg, New Delhi-110002: Address of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation office where objections and suggestions regarding the notification can be sent.
Form AB1: Form to be used for claiming payment under Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana.
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EMPLOYEES' STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 26 th November, 2018
No. N-12/13/1/2016-P&D.—In exercise of the powers conferred under sub section (1) of Section 97 of the
Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, do hereby notify a relief
ATAL BIMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA under Section 19 of the Act as a welfare measure for employees covered
under Section 2(9), in the form of cash compensation up to Ninety (90) days, once in a lifetime, to be claimed after three
months in one or more spells for being rendered unemployed; provided the employee should have competed two years of
insurable employment and have contributed not less than seventy eight (78) days in each of the four consecutive
contribution periods immediately preceding to the claim of relief. The relief shall not exceed twenty five per cent (25%)
of the average earning per day.
2. The contingency of unemployment should not have been as a result of any punishment for misconduct or
superannuation or voluntary retirement.
3. The average earning per day shall be the total amount of wages received during the four consecutive
contribution periods divided by seven hundred and thirty (730) days.
4. The identity shall ordinarily be established from ESIC data base having duly verified or authenticated Aadhar
Number.
5. The Scheme shall be treated effective from 01-07-2018 and shall become due for payment after three months.
6. The Insured Person shall furnish his/her claim in an affidavit, the form AB-1 (Annexure) duly forwarded by
his last employer to his/her allotted Branch Office.
7. The Scheme is introduced on pilot basis for a period of two years.
Any objection or suggestion, which may be received from any person in respect of this notification within a
period of thirty (30) days from the date of publication, will be considered by the Employees' State Insurance Corporation.
The objections and suggestions, if any, may be addressed to Shri S. Ravichandran, Addl. Commissioner (P&D),
Employees' State Insurance Corporation, Panchdeep Bhawan,C.I.G Marg, New Delhi-110002 (email: dir-
pnd@esic.nic.in).
S.RAVICHANDRAN, Addl.Commissioner (P&D)
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Form AB-1
EMPLOYEE'S STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION
CLAIM FOR PAYMENT UNDER ATAL BEEMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA
(To be prepared on Rs 20/- Non-Judicial Stamp paper Duly notorised)
I________________________________s/w/d of Sh.___________________________________ Insurance
No._______________________Aadhaar No.________________________ declare that I have been rendered
unemployed w.e.f._______________________________. I claim amount of relief under the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan
Yojana for the period from _______________to _______________________.
The amount due may be paid to me directly into my bank account already registered in the ESIC records
(Canceled cheque enclosed).
I further also declare that :-
1. I have not taken up any gainful employment during the above period.
2. I am not in receipt of any other similary benefit admissible under the provisions of any other
enactment.
3. I have not attained the age of superannuation during the period of claim.
4. I have not been convicted under section 84 of ESI Act.
5. My unemployment has not been as a result of any punishment for misconduct or superannuation or
Voluntary retirement.
6. I have not been dismissed/terminated under disciplinary action.
7. I hereby undertake to repay the whole amount forthwith on demand by the ESIC, if it is discovered at
any time that I was not lawfully entitled to that amount.
Dated :-
Place :-
Signature or Thumb Impression of the Claimant
Permanent Address ______________________
_____________________________________
Name, Address & Code No. of Factory/Estt.
In which Working before becoming unemployed.
Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064
and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.