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Maternity benefits for woman beedi workers hiked

By Our Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI JUNE 25. The Labour Ministry has announced an increase in the maternity benefits for woman beedi workers from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,000.

Speaking at the 19th meeting of the Beedi Workers Welfare Fund today, the Union Labour Minister, Sahib Singh Verma, said the dependants of the beedi workers would also be eligible for receiving financial assistance for major surgeries such as kidney transplant, heart surgery, cancers and tuberculosis.

He felt that the medical care being provided to these workers through the existing network of hospitals and dispensaries of the labour welfare organisation required vast improvement and services of professional organisations like the Employees State Insurance Corporation should be extended to them.

He said that more than two dozen schemes of financial assistance for educating the children of beedi workers had been simplified into seven focussed schemes.

Such assistance was now available to these children from Class I to the MBBS/B.Tech stage.

This would benefit the children of about 40 lakh beedi workers.

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