ESI On Telephone Allowance

Dear seniors,
In FMCG industry, can we deduct ESI on Telephone Allowance? Telephone Allowance is one of the breakups in our salary structure. Kindly help me out can we deduct ESI on Telephone Allowance.
Deepak Agarwal

Yes, you can deduct ESI on telephone allowances as all the allowances are the part of gross salary under the ESI Act-1948.

Dear seniors,
In Power Sector (Tender Base and LED Light manufacture ) industry, can we deduct ESI on Telephone (Mobile) Allowance? Telephone Allowance is one of the breakups in our salary structure or We give to employees fix in cash Kindly help me out can we deduct ESI on Telephone (Mobile) Allowance.
Tapan Kumar Singh