1.Sir, Permanent Identity Card( Pehchan Card) including family card is essential for claiming any facilities from any medical institutions of ESIC. There are no instructions issued by ESIC on the issue that without presenting his Pehchan Card, the insured person will be taken care in medical institutions of ESIC.
2. In case the TIC has expired, the insured person should immediately contact the appropriate Branch Office of ESIC to which the said unit is attached for extending the eligibility of said worker for another spell of period depending upon their instructions or rules.
3. Further the Regional/Sub/Divisional Office of ESIC has nothing to do with the preparation or providing of Permanent Identity Card to insured persons or their family members. Such functions of preparation of Identity Card or family Identity Cards are the subject matter of Branch Offices only. Further the Regional/Sub./Divisional Offices of ESIC are located at a long distance from the area and it is not convenient for any worker or his family to visit such a long distance for the work for which it is not an appropriate office.
4. I will request Sh. Stephen_7, who recorded above remarks to kindly place on record the copies of instructions issued by ESIC in support of his remarks as mentioned above so that I may also be able to up-date my knowledge accordingly. I personally feel that there is no justification, especially in this esteemed citeHR to record advice to a vast network of its customers/members which are not legally correct and not based on any documentary evidence.