In News: More than 4 crore unorganized workers have been registered at e-Shram Portal, India’s first national database on unorganized workers.
Highest number of registrations: Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh
Largest number of workers register from agriculture and construction sector
Registration at E-shram will facilitate unorganized workers to get the benefits of various social security and employment-based schemes
4.09 crore workers have registered on the portal. Of these around 50.02% beneficiaries are female and 49.98% are male.
e-Shram portal
It is a portal through which the government aims to register 38 crore unorganised workers, such as construction labourers, migrant workforce, street vendors and domestic workers, among others.
The workers will be issued an e-Shram card containing a 12-digit unique number, which, going ahead, will help in including them in social security schemes.
Significance of e-Shram portal – National Database on Unorganized Workers (NDUW)
Targeted identification of the unorganized workers was a much-needed step and the portal which will be the national database of our nation builders will help take welfare schemes to their doorstep, who are the builders of our Nation.
Targeted delivery and last mile delivery, has been a major focus of the schemes of government of India and the National Database of Unorganised workers (E-Shram portal) is another key step towards that.
