PIB | 24 Apr, 2023
Union
Minister for Labour & Employment Bhupender Yadav, launched new features in eShram
Portal on Monday in presence of Ms. Arti Ahuja, Secretary, Ministry of
Labour & Employment and other Senior officers of the Ministry.
The
new features added in eShram portal will enhance the utility of the
portal and facilitate ease of registration for unorganised workers. '
The
eShram registered workers can now connect with Employment opportunities,
Skilling, Apprenticeship, Pension Scheme, Digital Skilling and States’
schemes through eShram portal.
A
feature of capturing family details of migrant worker has been added to
the eShram portal. This feature can help in providing Child education
and women centric schemes to the migrant workers who have migrated with
family.
Further, a new feature on sharing of data of construction
workers registering on eShram with the concerned Building and Other
Construction Workers’ (BOCW) Welfare Board, has been added to ensure
registration of eShram construction workers with the respective BOCW
board and access to the schemes meant for them.
The
Union Minister also formally launched Data Sharing Portal (DSP) for
sharing of eShram data with the State/ UT Governments.
Data Sharing
Portal will allow sharing of eShram beneficiaries data with the
respective States and Union Territories in a secured manner for targeted
implementation of social security/welfare schemes for the unorganised
workers registered on eShram.
Recently, Ministry initiated mapping of
different schemes data with eShram data to identify the eShram
registrants who have not yet received the benefits of these schemes.
This data is also being shared with States/UTs based on which,
States/UTs can identify unorganised workers who have not yet received
benefit of the social welfare/security schemes and provide schemes’
benefit to them, on priority.
Ministry
of Labour & Employment is continuously working for the welfare of
workers in the country.
In this endeavour, Ministry launched eShram
portal on 26th August 2021 to create a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers which is seeded with Aadhaar. As on 21st April 2023, over 28.87 crore unorganised workers have registered on eShram portal.