OVER 1.71 crore workers from the unorganised sector have been registered on the e-Shram portal in the last one month since its launch on August 26, 2021. “Completion of one month of launch of e-Shram portal marks with the registration of more than 1.71 crores workers from the unorganised sector and in unorganised employment,” a labour ministry statement said. As of September 25, the statement said, as many as 1,71,59,743 workers have registered on the portal. The e-Shram portal was inaugurated on August 26, 2021 by the Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav. The portal is the first-ever national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers. It facilitates extending benefits of social sector schemes to the workers in the unorganised sector.

 

The data shows that the drive has strengthened with the mobilisation of workers achieving a greater mile each week. In this first week, 13.55 lakh informal workers registered on the portal. Compared to the 2nd week with over 19.52 lakh registration, in the third and the fourth week, the enrolments gained exponentially. In week 4, over 69.53 lakh workers registered on the e-Shram portal while it was 68.97 lakh in third week. Interestingly, almost 50 per cent of the workers registered so far are female. There has been week-on-week improvement in the percentage of female workforce, registering themselves on e-Shram portal, the statement said.

 

The share of women workers drastically improved from around 37 per cent in first week to almost 50 per cent in the latest week,i.e. week four. Data analysis based on the last week showed that a substantial proportion of women workers in domestic work are getting themselves registered on the portal. This is one category of occupation where women outnumber men. Besides, women form substantial proportion of workforce in sectors like agriculture as labourers, food industries as helpers and machine operators, apparel industry as helpers and tailors and also in SSIs of tobacco/ beedi rolling and as ASHAs/ ANMs in healthcare industry.