Wipro Wins e-Governance Contract From ESIC

Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd has announced that it has been awarded an outsourcing contract from Employees State Insurance Corporation(ESIC). ESIC is a statutory corporation, under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India (GoI).

Wipro has been selected to implement ESIC’s Project Panchdeep which is aimed at improving healthcare services to its beneficiaries, by providing online facilities to employers and insured people for registration, payment of premium and disbursement of cash benefits. Other modules will provide HR, Finance and General Administration programs for increasing the organisational efficiency. The ambitious project was mandated by ESI Act 1948 with a focus on creating a medicare backbone for the marginalised sections of society.

Anand Sankaran, senior vice president & head- India and Middle East, Wipro Infotech said, “It is an honour to be awarded one of the most prestigious e-Governance projects. This is a strategic relationship for Wipro and we are committed to making it a showcase in the e-governance domain. The Labour Ministry is very supportive and is keen on ensuring a quick rollout of the project since it directly benefits the common citizens of India.”

Ranbir Singh, head - Government & Defence, Wipro Infotech added, “We at Wipro believe that our e-governance expertise coupled with the cutting edge technology we offer, will help provide better service to ESIC employees as well as citizens. We are committed to providing a scalable solution for Project Panchdeep by incorporating best practices and selecting an optimal combination of proven technology platform and architecture to meet ESIC’s business and functional requirements and SLAs.”

The five parts of this national importance project are termed as Pehchan, Milap, Pashan, Dhanwantri and Pragati which include identification of more than one crore subscribers and their family members covered under ESIC, connecting all locations of ESIC (1Head Office, 51 Regional /Sub Regional / Divisional Offices, 620 Branch Offices, 144 Hospitals, 1388 Dispensaries and State Directorates), Datacentre / Disaster recovery, Hospital Information Management System, ERP and maintenance respectively.