JUDGMENT

Introduction:

All the petitioners are the parents and their children. The children secured ranks in NEET entrance examination to gain admission into the undergraduate medical course. The parents are the employees covered by the Employees’ State Insurance Company Act, 1949 (‘the Act’) and its schemes. The respondents are the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (‘Corporation’) and its officials.

WP (C) No.19497 of 2018:

2. Anitha Dinesh is a Dental Assistant, working in a private establishment, covered by the Act. Under the Act, she is called an Insured Person. Her daughter Meghna Dinesh took NEET entrance and got qualified for admission into MBBS, under the Insured Person (IP) quota. To claim conn.cases 2 that benefit, Meghna must produce a certificate of “Ward of Insured Person”.

For this, Anitha Dinesh applied to the ESI Corporation.

3. Anitha Claimed that she entered the service on 01.03.2011, but her employer registered her under the Act on 25.09.2014, only when Anitha protested about denial of benefits to her. The employer, in course of time, did pay all the arrears of accumulated contributions to the Corporation. 4. In response to Anitha’s application for the “Ward of I