SPREE 2025: ESIC Drive to Register Employers and Workers
Why in the news
ESIC cleared a short-term drive, SPREE 2025, to bring left-out establishments and workers into the ESI net.
Key facts
- Full form: Scheme for Promotion of Registration of Employers and Employees, under the ESI Act, 1948.
- Venue: Shimla, 196th Corporation Meeting.
- Covers temporary and contractual staff of establishments not yet registered.
- Online routes: ESIC, Shram Suvidha and MCA portals.
Significance
- Employers need not fear retrospective penalties, legal action or backdated dues.
- Draws informal-sector units into social security.
About ESIC
The body delivers medical, maternity, disability and unemployment benefits to insured workers.
Exam angle
- Nodal ministry: Labour and Employment.
- Parent law: ESI Act, 1948.