E-shram portal records more than 3 crore registration of unorganised workers

New Delhi, Oct 9 (KNN) The Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Bhupender Yadav informed that across the country more than 3 crore have registered themselves on the E-shram portal, the first ever National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) in the country.

The 177th Governing Body Meeting and 78th Annual General Body meeting of the Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education and Development, an autonomous body under the ministry, was held at Hyderabad. The meeting was chaired by Vrijesh Updadhyay, Chairman of the Board along with Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), Govt. of India, D.P.S. Negi and several important decisions were taken.

Informing about the e-shram portal which has given unorganized workers a distinct identity and recognition, Negi said, “Earlier, we did not have any means to provide benefits to unorganised workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, since we did not have data on them. But now, the e-Shram Card will serve as a single card to avail government benefits across the country, it will be One Nation One Card”, and asked the Board to include the details about registering on the e-Shram portal and disseminate the benefits of registering at the portal to the unorganized workers in the country.

In another important development, benefitting 1019 contract workers a Memorandum of settlement was signed between the management of Celebi, (DIAL), and their contract workers represented by Airport Employees Union today in New Delhi. Each worker shall receive an amount INR

58,400/- and total amount disbursed among the workers this year will be INR 6,08,41,600/- (Rupees Six Crore Eight Lacs Forty One Thousand Six Hundred Only).