About ESIC

ESI SCHEME IN KARNATAKA

The Scheme was implemented in the State of Karnataka in July 1958 in Bangalore. Now, the Scheme has been extended to the entire Karnataka State covering more than 34.96 lakh employees working in about  1,00,099  factories / establishment, thereby catering to the needs of more than 1.39 crore beneficiaries.

For administration of the Scheme, E.S.I. Corporation is having One Regional Office, Six Sub-Regional Offices, 44 Branch Offices and 6 Dispensary Cum Branch Office.

For delivery of Medical Benefit in the state of Karnataka, three Hospitals are being run by ESI Corporation.  Government of Karnataka is administering medical benefits through a network of 7 Hospitals and 111 Dispensaries through ESI Scheme (Medical) Services, Directorate.

Apart from this, ESI is having tie up with reputed private hospitals / diagnostic centres for providing Super Specialty Treatment to the beneficiaries.

ESIC in Karnataka is also running two Medical Colleges, one in Bangalore and the other one is in Gulbarga, having intake capacity of 100 seats in Under Graduate (MBBS) course, 45% of the seats in these colleges are reserved for wards of ESI registered employees (insured persons). ESI Medical College, Rajajinagar is also a Post Graduate Education centre. ESIC has two Nursing Colleges, one at Indiranagar, Bangalore and the other at Gulbarga. Dental College is also being run by ESIC at Gulbarga.

Last updated / Reviewed : 2019-08-06