The ESI provisions are applicable to areas of the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar lslands,with effect from 01 June 2022, to establishments, wherein ten or more persons are employed, or were employed, on any day of the preceding twelve months, namely:- (i) Shops; (ii) Hotels; (iii) Restaurants; (iv) Road motor transport establishments; (v) Cinemas including preview theatres; (vi) Newspaper establishments as defined in clause (d) of section 2 of the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955; (vii) Educational Institutions (including public,private, aided or partially aided) run by an individual, trust, society or other organisation;(viii) Medical institutions (including corporate, joint sector, trust, charitable and private ownership hospitals, nursing homes,diagnostic centres and pathological labs).