The e-Shram portal of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, which is supposed to register employees within the unorganized sector and assist them entry social safety advantages, is being built-in with the One Nation One Ration Card scheme, in keeping with Bhupender Yadav, Minister for Labor and Employment.
“We are within the means of integration of e-Shram with One Nation One Ration Card primarily based on the placement knowledge of month-to-month meals grain assortment from PDS retailers. It is envisaged {that a} comparability of the placement knowledge with everlasting handle knowledge on e-Shram shall assist determine migrant employees inside e-Shram,” Yadav mentioned.
He was talking at an IE THINC Migration webinar on migrant employees and the promise of e-Shram. The webinar was a part of a collection on migration and there have been seven editions prior to now.
“The main issue is to ensure that the location of the worker is not a hindrance to accessing social security benefits… E-Shram shall share all relevant data with the state governments in a dynamic way,” he mentioned.
At a panel dialogue following Yadav’s handle, Divya Varma, Program Manager, Center for Migration and Labor Solutions, Aajeevika Bureau, mentioned that it’s not actually clear how the e-Shram train could be completely different from its predecessors.
“The Unorganized Workers Social Security Board was initiated in 2008. The Unorganized Worker Identification Number was initiated in 2015. And, all these schemes and playing cards and platforms sought the identical factor…enumerate casual and migrant employees. But nothing actually got here within the identify of social safety for employees by such drives,” she mentioned.
She additionally pointed, “It’s not backed by statutory legislation…”
On entry to e-Shram, she spoke of the digital divide and insufficient data on its advantages.
Panelists additionally spoke of the necessity to guarantee participation of employers within the system.
“Private sector is the largest employer of migrant workers, and their involvement would go a long way,” mentioned Sanjay Awasthi, India Head of Office, International Organization for Migration.
Ashif Shaikh, founder and CEO, Jan Sahas, mentioned, “E-shram system tries to create a social registry of unorganized sector workers. Registration is the first step, after that how to reduce vulnerability through security is very important. The role of industry is important and their participation needs to be increased.”
Govindraj Ethiraj, journalist, and founding father of IndiaSpend, additionally spoke of the potential of linking the electoral database with e-Shram to make sure electoral illustration. “Why not introduce voting as well? From a technology standpoint, there’s nothing that stops us,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
