New Delhi, May 23 -- The Employees' State Insurance Corp. (ESIC) added 1.63 million new members in March, according to the payroll data released on Friday.

The ministry of law and justice, which released the data, said that of the new additions, 796,000 were young employees under the age of 25.

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In comparison, 1.54 million new members joined the ESIC in February.

The month also saw the inclusion of around 31,514 new establishments under the ESIC's social security scheme, expanding coverage to more workers, compared with 23,526 new establishments in the previous month.

A gender analysis of the payroll data revealed that women accounted for 361,000 of the net enrollments...