ESIC strengthens India’s workforce with healthcare, social security and medical education for Viksit Bharat 2047

Long before the modern nation-state conceived of the welfare model, Indian civilisation had already understood that the dignity of a society rests on the dignity of its labour. The śreṇis, the guild-communities of craftsmen and traders that flourished from the Mauryan age onward, pooled resources to care for their members in sickness and misfortune, embodying a communitarian ethic that treated the…