About the Portal

• In August 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Employment unveiled the e-shram portal which aims to register 38 crore unorganised workers, such as construction labourers, migrant workforce, street vendors and domestic workers, among others.
• The workers will be issued an e-Shram card containing a 12 digit unique number, which will help in including them in social security schemes.
• The portal would lead to the creation of a national database of unorganised workers. 
• Apart from being Aadhaar-linked, it will collect details of the name, occupation, address, educational qualification, skill types and family of the registered workers.
• The portal was developed by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, in technical collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (an attached office under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology).
• The portal is open to workers engaged in the unorganised sector and aged between 16 and 59.

Why in News?

• The government said the capacity of daily registration on e-Shram portal has been increased to 80 lakh per day.
• One of the main objectives of the e-Shram portal other than registration is to facilitate delivery of benefits of social security schemes to the unorganised workers through integration with other government portals.

Reference:

1. https://newsonair.gov.in/News?title=Capacity-of-daily-registration-on-e-Shram-portal-increases-to-80-lakh-per-day%3a-Govt&id=445684