New Delhi: Families of Industrial workers enrolled with employee state insurance corporation (ESIC) who have died due to the coronavirus pandemic will get pension for two years, the union government said Saturday.Dependent family members will get 90% of the average daily wage for a period of two years ending 24 March 2022.
The scheme will be effective retrospectively from 24 March 2020, when the union government first announced a national lockdown.“Dependent family members of such persons will be entitled to the benefit of pension equivalent to 90% of average daily wage drawn by the worker as per the existing norms.