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XAVIER INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SERVICE Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) is a Jesuit-run business school in Ranchi, India. It was established as an extension department of St. Xavier's College, Ranchi, in 1955 by Michael A. Windey with the objective of training young men and women in rural development, personnel management and industrial relations. In 1973 the institute was registered as a separate educational society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Its logo has an emblem and a wordmark, which was added in the later years. The circular emblem has a shield in the middle with four parts namely a crop with cereal, mark of the jesuit with cross, a traditional lamp and pair of gear wheels. It is circumscribed by a circular border which has its name and motto ‘leaven in the dough’. The wordmark in blue colour is trendy and extra bold sans serif lowercase letters joined at their base with a uniquely curving stroke of ‘x’. It has the name of the institu

EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION The promulgation of Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act), by the Parliament was the first major legislation on social security for workers in independent India. The deployment of manpower in manufacturing processes was limited to a few select industries such as jute, textile, chemicals etc. The legislation on creation and development of a fool proof multi-dimensional social security system, when the country's economy was in a very fledgling state was obviously a remarkable gesture towards the socio economic amelioration of a workf or ce though limited in number and geographic distribution. The ESI Act 1948, encompasses certain health related eventualities that the workers are generally exposed to; such as sickness, maternity, temporary or permanent disablement, occupational disease or death due to employment injury, resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity - total or partial. Social security provision m