The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will start six-bedded hospitals at Qutubhullapur and Chikkadpally dispensaries here with their own buildings, Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.
The Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment had held a review meeting with officials of various departments here.
"Wherever the dispensaries are located in rented buildings, the state government should provide free-of-cost space to build dispensaries by the ESI Corporation," an official release quoted the minister as saying.
The minister further said that the ESI Corporation is contemplating to cover (medical insurance) unorganised labourers like auto-rickshaw drivers, rickshaw pullers, construction workers and cine workers under the ESI Scheme on a pilot basis in Hyderabad.
Dattatreya asked the Endowments Department officials to provide water facility and other amenities to devotees near temples.
He also instructed them for landscape/greenery in and around all the temples to provide the places of worship a good ambiance.
"There are certain instances where the lands of temples are being encroached upon for which machinery has to be set up to look into all such things," he said adding that properties of the temples are to be protected from undue influence of politicians.
Speaking on the city roads, he said most of the roads in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad are very congested and there is a need to widen them, the release added.
