New Delhi, Apr 24 (KNN) The facility for filing single online common return will help in reducing the transaction costs of business and make it easy and convenient to meet their obligations.

The service under eight Central Labour Acts / Rules on the Shram Suvidha portal will be launched on Friday.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment has developed a unified web portal ‘Shram Suvidha Portal’, catering to four major organisations under the ministry. They are Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), Directorate General of Mines Safety, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization and Employees’ State Insurance Corporation.

Main feature of Shram Suvidha are allotment of unique labour identification number (LIN) to units to facilitate online registration, filing of self-certified and simplified single online return by the establishments, transparent labour inspection scheme through a computerised system based on risk based criteria and uploading the inspection reports within 72 hours by the labour inspectors and timely redressal of grievances to be ensured with the help of the portal. (KNN/ST)