Over 30.58 crore unorganised workers have been registered on e-Shram portal since its inception on August 26, 2021, with 33,700 of them getting on board the online platform daily in the last year alone, data shared by Union Ministry of Labour and Employment in Parliament on Monday revealed.
As on January 28, 2025, over 30.58 crore unorganised workers have registered on e-Shram portal created for a comprehensive national database of unorganised workers and is seeded with Aadhaar.
By offering them Universal Account Number (UAN) on a self-declaration basis, the Ministry wants to provide them social security.
From January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024, the e-Shram portal recorded over 1.23 crore registration with an average of 33,700 registrations per day, according to the information shared by Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Monday.
For formalisation
To promote formalisation of the urorganised economy, the Budget announced that that 1 crore gig workers, who are part of the unorganised workforce, will be provided PM Jan Arogya Yojana healthcare scheme. The gig workers will be provided identity cards and registered on e-Shram portal for providing them social security.
The Ministry said that e-Shram– ‘One-Stop-Solution’ entails integration of different social security/ welfare schemes at single portal i.e., e-Shram. This enables unorganised workers registered on e-Shram to access social security schemes and see benefits availed by them so far, through e-Shram.
So far, 12 schemes of different Central Ministries/Departments have been integrated/ mapped with the e-Shram including Pradhan Mantri Surakhsa Bima Yojana (PMSBY), Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, Prime Minister Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM-SVANidhi), PM Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U), PM Awas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).