{"id":52459,"date":"2025-06-29T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=52459"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:33:25","slug":"spree-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spree-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"SPREE Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>SPREE Scheme Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Employees\u2019 State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) approved the re-launch of SPREE Scheme from July 1 to December 31, 2025. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About SPREE Scheme<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Scheme to Promote Registration of Employers\/Employees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SPREE) was originally <\/span><b>introduced in 2016,\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The objective of <\/span><b>expanding ESI coverage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scheme successfully facilitated the registration of over 88,000 employers and 1.02 crore employees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The renewed SPREE will be open from <\/span><b>1st July to 31st December 2025,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offering a <\/span><b>one-time opportunity for unregistered employers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and left-out workers\u2014including contractual and temporary staff\u2014to enroll under the ESI Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the scheme, employers registering <\/span><b>during this period will be treated as covered from the date of registration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or as declared by them, while newly registered employees will be covered from their respective dates of registration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By focusing on voluntary compliance rather than penalization, the scheme will seek to ease the litigation burden, encourage formal registration, and foster improved engagement and goodwill among stakeholders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/esic-to-re-open-registration-for-left-out-workers-unregistered-employees-to-avail-medical-benefits\/article69744924.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPREE Scheme was originally introduced in 2016 with the objective of expanding ESI coverage across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1160,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-52459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-spree-scheme","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}