Workers' health woes to get a new lifeline as ESIC inks MoU with DGFASLI

Hyderabad: The precarious working condition of workers in the formal and informal sector could be a thing of the past as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labour Institutes (DGFASLI) now seek to focus on their health problems.

This was informed by  Union Minister of State for labour and Employment (Independent Charge) Bandaru Dattatreya in Hyderabad. 

He informed that the MoU will help in spreading awareness for healthy working conditions, reduce the danger of diseases or injuries and provide good quality life for workers.

MoU's objectives

The MoU seeks to establish a mutual collaboration that will enhance occupational health of workers and reduce the occurrence of work related injuries and diseases by ‘DGFASLI-ESIC Occupational Health Training, Research & Development Centre’ (OHTRDC) at Regional Labour Institute, Faridabad followed by at other institutes located at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Kanpur.


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