e-Shram Portal
About
- The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched e-Shram portal (eshram.gov.in) in 2021 for creation of a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) seeded with Aadhaar.
- It is meant to register and support the unorganised workers by providing them a Universal Account Number (UAN).
- The UAN number will be a permanent number i.e. once provided, it will remain unchanged for the worker.
- It will also have details of name, occupation, address, occupation type, educational qualification, skill types etc. for optimum realization of their employability and extend the benefits of the social security schemes to them.
Who can register in eShram Portal?
- Any individual satisfying following condition can register on the portal:
- An unorganised worker.
- Any worker who is a home-based worker, self-employed worker or a wage worker working in the unorganised sector and not a member of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) or Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), is called an unorganised worker.
- Age should be between 16-59 years.
- An unorganised worker.
- There are no income criteria for registering on e-Shram. However, the worker should not be an income tax payee.
Why in News?
- Over 31.78 crore unorganised workers have already been registered on e-Shram portal.