Wage relief for those who lost jobs in lockdown

The government is launching a mission, Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana (ABVKY), to guarantee that Employees’ State Insurance Corporation-enlisted laborers who had lost their positions during the lockdown can guarantee of half of their wages for as long as a quarter of a year as unemployment relief regardless of whether they have continued work. ESIC will send its Rs 44, 000 crore kitty with a conventional warning on Friday.

“So far the reaction has been feeble however we anticipate that it should get. We are intending to promote and contact more recipients,” a work service official told TOI”.

The move is viewed as an effort to those displaced by the lockdown and blunt the criticism that the legislature didn’t deal with migrants, who were the worst hit. Sources said that the reports should be submitted truly as the recipients are not connected to Aadhaar.

The advantage can likewise be profited by ESIC individuals who may lose positions in December.

Ministry sources said the plan has begun to get almost 400 cases day by day since the work service and ESIC chose to broaden ABVKY a month ago when it likewise chose to knock up the pace of unemployment relief from the current 25% of pay to half of the wages.