: E-Shram: All you need to know about India’s first centralised database for unorganised workers #IndiaNEWS The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment launched a national database to register unorganised

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e-Shram: All you need to know about India’s first centralised database for unorganised workers #IndiaNEWS
The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment launched a national database to register unorganised workers, called the e-Shram portal on August 26. The portal has been handed over to states and Union Territories to register unorganised workers, domestic workers, construction workers, migrant workers, gig and platform workers and ensure that welfare schemes meant for them reach them.“For the first time in India, a system is being made to register 38 crore unorganised workers,� said Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav. “It will not only register them but would also be helpful in delivering of various social security schemes being implemented by the central and state governments.�Unorganised workersThe Code On Social Security, 2019 defines an unorganised worker as “a home-based worker, self-employed worker or a wage worker in the unorganised sector and includes a worker in the organised sector who is not covered by the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 or Chapters III to VII of this Code�.“A large number of unorganised workers are home-based and are engaged in occupations such as beedi rolling, agarbatti making, papad making, tailoring, embroidery work, workers who are working or engaged as street vendors, head loaders, brick kiln workers, cobblers, rag pickers, domestic workers, washermen, rickshaw pullers, landless labourers, own account workers, agricultural workers, construction...Read more

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