The New Health Insurance Scheme for Tamil Nadu Government Pensioners (including Spouse) 2017

The New Health Insurance Scheme for Tamil Nadu Government Pensioners (including Spouse) / Family Pensioners will provide cashless health insurance coverage to all the Pensioners (including spouse) / Family Pensioners whose pension including provisional pension is paid out of the Consolidated Fund of Tamil Nadu and who draw their pension / family pension either directly from the Pension Pay Office, Chennai / District Treasury / Sub-Treasury through Banks under Pension Pilot Scheme or directly from Banks under Public Sector Bank Scheme.

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ACCIDENTAL DEATH/ DISABILITY - RELIEF SCHEME IN TAMILNADU GOVT

In exercise of the powers conferred by	section 4 of	the  Tamil Nadu
Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982
(Tamil Nadu Act 33 of 1982), the Governor of	Tamil Nadu,	after consultation

with the Advisory Committee, hereby makes the following amendments to the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Construction Workers) Welfare Scheme 1994.

AMENDMENTS.

In the said Scheme, -

(1)  in clause 11, -

(i)   after sub-clause (2) (e), the following sub-clause shall be inserted,

namely: -

“(2-A) In case of disablement due to accident, the registered manual worker shall also be eligible to claim wheel chair or artificial limbs, in addition to the amount of compensation.”;

(ii)   in sub-clause (3) in item (e), for the expression “sanction the compensation to the claimant. ”, the expression “sanction the compensation

in addition to provide artificial limbs or wheel chair, to the claimant ” shall be substituted;

(2) in clause 15, in sub-clause (1), in THE TABLE,-

(i)  against Serial Number 7 in column (1),-

(a)   in column (4), for the expression “2000”, in two places where it occurs, the expression “4000” shall, respectively, be substituted;

(b)   in column (5), for the expression “3000”, in two places where it occurs, the expression “5000” shall, respectively, be substituted;

(ii) against  Serial Number 8 in column (1),-

(a) in column (4),	for	the expression	“2000”, in two places where it
occurs, the expression “4000” shall , respectively, be  substituted;
(b) in column (5),	for	the expression	“4000”, in two places where it
occurs, the expression “6000” shall, respectively,			be substituted;

(iii) against Serial Number 9 in column (1),-

(a) in column (4), for it occurs, the expression “6000”

the expression “4000”, in two places where shall, respectively, be substituted;

(b) in column (5), for the expression “6000”, in two places where it occurs, the expression “8000” shall, respectively, be substituted;

(3)   in SHEDULE II. in FORM – C,-

(i)    in the heading, for the expression “ACCIDENTAL DEATH/ DISABILITY”, the expression “ACCIDENTAL DEATH/DISABILITY/ PROVISION OF ARTIFICIAL LIMBS OR WHEEL CHAIR” shall be substituted,

(ii)  after item 9, the following item shall be inserted, namely:-

“9–A. In case of accidental disability, whether the claimant requires wheel chair/artificial limbs (strike out whichever is not applicable): ”;

(iii) under the heading “DECLARATION BY THE CLAIMANT”, for the expression “I hereby agree to refund in full the amount received as assistance “for accidental death / disability.’’, the expression “I hereby agree to refund the full amount of compensation and /or value of artificial limbs or wheel chair received.” shall be substituted;

(iv) under the heading “SANCTION”, for the expression “as assistance”, the expression “as compensation / provision of artificial limbs or / wheel chair” shall be substituted;

(v) under the heading “ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SLIP”, for the expression “accidental death / disability”, the expression “accidental death / disability/ provision of artificial limbs or / wheel chair” shall be substituted;.

Tamilnadu Governement Personal Accident Relief for the Accidents at Work Site 2016

Personal Accident Relief for the Accidents at Work Site.-

(1) All manual workers when met with an accident are eligible for Personal Accident Relief and where the accident results in death, their nominees are eligible for Personal Accident Relief.

Explanation.-

For the purpose of this clause, “accident” means any bodily injury or death or loss of limbs or loss of sight resulting to a manual worker solely and directly from accident arising out of and in the course of his employment but does not include any intentional self injury, suicide, attempted suicide, injury caused while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs or caused by insanity or resulting from the commission of any breach of the law, or rules, regulations or instructions applicable, from time to time.

(2) The risk covered by the Personal Accident Relief scheme and the amount of compensation payable shall be as follows:-

(a)Death : Rs. 5,00,000

(b)Loss or actual physical separation of or total

and irrecoverable loss of use of:-

(i) both hands;

or

(ii) both feet ;

or

(iii) one hand and one foot ;

Or

(iv) total and irrecoverable loss of sight in both eyes.:

 Rs. 1,00,000

(c)Loss or actual physical separation of, or total

and irrecoverable loss of use of:-

(i) one hand ; or

(ii) one foot ; or

(iii) total and irrecoverable loss of sight of one eye: Rs. 50,000

(d)Permanent total disablement from injuries otherthan those specified in items (b) and ( c) above Rs. 1,00,000

(e)Permanent partial disablement as specified in column (1) of the Table below

At the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column ( 2 ) of the Table below:

(3) Claim.-

(a) Immediately upon the happening of any accident while  in pursuit of his employment resulting in death at work site, the employer shall send reports to the Labour Officer (Social Security Scheme), Assistant Director (Building and Other Construction Workers), Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health of the respective district and to the Police in Form B in Schedule II of such occurrence of the accident.

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Employment Department - G.O.(Ms) No.157 Labour & Employment (I2)department

Year : 2016 GO.(Ms)No.65 Dt: March 01, 2016   

• Labour – Tamil Nadu Manual Workers(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982 (Tamil Nadu Act 33 of 1982)

• Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Construction Workers) Welfare Scheme, 1994 

• Extending Personal Accident Relief to the Unregistered Construction Workers for the accidents at work site.

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (I2) DEPARTMENT

 

1.G.O.(Ms) No.157, Labour & Employment (I2)department, dated 11.12.2014.

2.From the Commissioner of Labour,Chennai-600 006,letter No.W1/36146/14,dated 01.04.2015.

 

ORDER:

 

1. In the Government Order first read above,the personal accident relief paid to the nominees of the family of the deceased Construction Worker registered with the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board,was enhanced from Rupees one lakh to five lakh in the case of death due to accident that happened at work site during the course of employment.

2. In the letter second read above, the Commissioner of Labour has sent proposals for extending the personal accident relief to the Unregistered Construction Workers also in case of death due to accident sat work site.

3. After careful examination of the proposal of Commissioner of Labour, the Government hereby make amendments to the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Construction Workers) Welfare Scheme, 1994 ,so as to extend the personal accident relief to the Unregistered Construction Workers in case of accidents at work site.

4. Accordingly, the appended Notifications will be published in the Extraordinary issue of Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.The Works Manager,Government Central Press, Chennai-600 079 is requested to send 50 copies of the Gazette to the Government and50 copies to the Commissioner of Labour,Chennai–600 006.

5. The Secretary to Government, Tamil Development and  Information(Translations) Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009 is requested to send the Tamil translation of the Notifications to the Works Manager, Government Central Press, Chennai-600 079 for the publication in Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.

Medical insurance scheme launched for Tamil Nadu govt employees

The chief minister distributed medical insurance cards to five employees as part of the launch of the scheme.

The government is implementing the scheme through United India Insurance Company, between July 1 2016 and June 30, 2020.

All government employees will be covered if they pay Rs 180 per month. The employees and their family members will be covered for Rs 4 lakh. If an employee has cancer or needs an organ transplant, the cover will be increased to Rs 7.5 lakh.

More than 10.22 lakh employees will be covered. The state government will spend Rs 17.90 crore annually for the scheme