ESIC medical college to be handed over to Raj govt: Min

Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya today said the ESIC medical college hospital, being built by the Centre at Alwar, will be handed over to state government soon.
"The Rs 800-crore medical college and hospital will be handed over to the state government, in which 50 per cent of the seats will be allotted to the state. The Centre will have a quota of 15 per cent and remaining seats will be reserved for the children of labourers of unorganised sector," he told reporters here.
In Rajasthan, he said, there are 1.12 crore registered labourers in unorganised sector.
The minister also informed that the 40 ESIC dispensaries in the state will be upgraded from 6 to 10-bedded ones in phased manner.

"In the first phase, 14 dispensaries have been identified which will be upgraded," he said.
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Odisha's Labour and Employment Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick said the state has set up its own agenda to help the labourers migrating to other states.
Addressing the gathering, ILO Director Panudda Boonpala said the conference is the first-of-its kind to bring together various states and national stakeholders on issues of national importance like child labour, inter-state migrant workers, and construction workers.
Odisha Chief Secretary A P Padhi said the state has a target to completely eliminate child labour in the state by 2025.