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ESIC organized one-day seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought & Social Security”
By IndianMandarins- 04 Oct 2019
1143ESIC, Haryana, on Wednesday, organized a one-day
seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought and Social Security’ in which speakers from
different walks of life were called to deliberate upon the issue. Inaugurating
the session Additional Commissioner and Regional Director ESIC Haryana D K
Mishra said that Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts, ideology and philosophy are and
will always have great impact on India. Ratnesh Kumar Gautam, Director, SRO, ESIC Gurugram,
said that basics of Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts are truth and nonviolence besides
trusteeship, Satyagraha, Swaraj, Swadesi, Sarvodaya (uplift for all), self
sufficiency (included Khadi promotion) and dignity of labour etc. Gautam
further said that Social Security is a welfare concept. Main benefits under
Social Security to be given as per lnternational Labour Organisation (ILO) are
Medical Care, Sickness Benefit, Old Age Benefit, Unemployment Benefit,
Maternity Benefit, Family Benefit, Employment Injury Benefit, Invalidity
Benefit and Survivors' Benefit. Prof Sidheshwar Prasad Shukla, University of Delhi,
a Workers' Rights Activist and also a Member, ESIC Regional Board, Delhi said
that Mahatma Gandhi had made impact not only on India but throughout the world.
Mahatma Gandhi is truly the father of nation and due to his concept of
Sarvodaya, the concept of social security has to be universal. He wished that
organisations like ESIC and EPFO should try to further their coverage to make
the social security benefits universal in nature for the entire country. Dr Sanjeev Rai, an expert on education and Adjunct
Professor, with Tata Institute of Social Sciences said that the relevance of
Mahatma Gandhi’s thought in education, in social security, in corporate social
responsibility and in all other fields will always remain important. Other speakers were Murli Kumar, Vice President of
All India Trade Unions Congress, Haryana state Committee, and Senior Vice
President AITUC, Gurgaon, and Masab
Shamsi, Head of Worker Assistance Centre
for "Safe in India" Foundation, a non-profit Organisation.
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ESIC organized one-day seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought & Social Security”
By IndianMandarins - 2019-10-04 08:33:00
ESIC, Haryana, on Wednesday, organized a one-day seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought and Social Security’ in which speakers from different walks of life were called to deliberate upon the issue. Inaugurating the session Additional Commissioner and Regional Director ESIC Haryana D K Mishra said that Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts, ideology and philosophy are and will always have great impact on India.
Ratnesh Kumar Gautam, Director, SRO, ESIC Gurugram, said that basics of Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts are truth and nonviolence besides trusteeship, Satyagraha, Swaraj, Swadesi, Sarvodaya (uplift for all), self sufficiency (included Khadi promotion) and dignity of labour etc. Gautam further said that Social Security is a welfare concept. Main benefits under Social Security to be given as per lnternational Labour Organisation (ILO) are Medical Care, Sickness Benefit, Old Age Benefit, Unemployment Benefit, Maternity Benefit, Family Benefit, Employment Injury Benefit, Invalidity Benefit and Survivors' Benefit.
Prof Sidheshwar Prasad Shukla, University of Delhi, a Workers' Rights Activist and also a Member, ESIC Regional Board, Delhi said that Mahatma Gandhi had made impact not only on India but throughout the world. Mahatma Gandhi is truly the father of nation and due to his concept of Sarvodaya, the concept of social security has to be universal. He wished that organisations like ESIC and EPFO should try to further their coverage to make the social security benefits universal in nature for the entire country.
Dr Sanjeev Rai, an expert on education and Adjunct Professor, with Tata Institute of Social Sciences said that the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s thought in education, in social security, in corporate social responsibility and in all other fields will always remain important.
Other speakers were Murli Kumar, Vice President of All India Trade Unions Congress, Haryana state Committee, and Senior Vice President AITUC, Gurgaon, and Masab Shamsi, Head of Worker Assistance Centre for "Safe in India" Foundation, a non-profit Organisation.
