Our Correspondent
Kohima | January 10
Developed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the e-Shram portal is built to create a national database of unorganized workers, which is seeded with an individual's Aadhaar.
The data includes details of name, occupation, address, educational qualification, skill types and family details etc. for understanding their employability and extending the benefits of the social security schemes to them.
It is the first-ever national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers, etc intended to cover the country's approximately 38 crore workers in the unorganised sector. The main objective is to create a centralised database of every construction worker, migrant worker, gig and platform worker, street vendor, domestic worker, agriculture worker etc, which will help to implement the social security services to them and share their information with various stakeholders for delivering the welfare schemes.
After registering on the e-Shram portal, the workers will be issued a universal account number on the e-Shram card which will be valid across the country and can be used to link with various social security schemes.
The registration portal has been called a "gateway to social security whose doors will be opened once the entire path has been laid," that while the registration in the e-Shram portal helps the workers to establish their identity and get access to social security and welfare schemes of the government, they will be able to access them only once the entire registration process is completed.
In line with this, Nagaland state’s Labour Department as the Nodal Department for e-SHRANI portal in the State and with the CSCs as the Principal Registering Authority, undertook the registration of the unorganised workers on the portal in a major drive across the State with 1,90,903 registrations completed to date, according to the Annual Administrative Report 2022-23 of Labour Department, Nagaland.
“It has been the endeavor of the department to reach out to all the unorganised workers irrespective of their location or station registering people even in some of the most remote villages,” the report stated.
The report stated that the registration process is still underway with the aim of reaching out and registering all the unorganised workers in the State on the portal.
