The government scheme - which pledges contribution of upto 12% of the salary of an employee on behalf of the employer - has failed to find any takers with the FM saying that in the first six months, not a single employer had registered with the EPFO or the ESIC to avail the benefits.
In his Budget speech this year, the FM had said that under the plan, the government would pay the employers' contribution towards provident fund and ESI scheme for each disabled person employed in the private sector. Chidambaram had even made a provision of Rs 1,800 crore for the welfare programme.
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