ESI – Background Employees’ State Insurance Scheme [‘ESI Scheme’] is a comprehensive social security scheme devised to protect employees and their dependents, covered under it, against contingencies, such as sickness, maternity, and death or disability due to employment injuries. The ESI Scheme is based on the principle of ‘pooling of risks and resources’, wherein that section of the population, which is exposed to risks of the same nature, comes together to mitigate the physical and…