Bandipora achieves 100 percent target under E-Shram Scheme

Over 1 Lac unorganized workers registered under the scheme

Over 1 Lac unorganized workers registered under the scheme

Wahid Rafeeqi

Bandipora, Feb 08 (KNS): District Administration Bandipora has announced 100% completion of E-Shram registrations and registered around 1.29 lac beneficiaries under the scheme in a span of one month. 

Joint Director planning Imtiyaz Ahmad on Tuesday said that joint efforts rendered by Labour Department and other allied Departments helped to register 1.29 lakhs beneficiaries in record one month.

E-Shram is an integrated social security scheme for all types of unorganised workers with multiple benefits.  

The age range of eligibility is 16-59 years and free registration is available at all CSCs centres with Aadhar card and mobile number only required for enrollment.

Imtiyaz said e-SHRAM portal launched by the Government is aimed at facilitating better execution of various Social Security schemes for all unorganised sector workers.

He said it is the initiative of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment for building a national database of unorganised workers and is an effort towards formalisation of unorganised workforce that will help to identify unorganised sector workers and is a much-needed step towards ensuring benefits of all Government Security schemes reaches to the targeted workers and their families.

He said during the enrollment drive besides other unorganized workers, sub-groups of unorganised workers like MGNREGA workers, SHG members under NRLM and NULM, street vendors, Auto drivers, construction (BOCW) workers, mid-day meal workers, domestic workers, ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers, Agricultural labourers and Fishermen workers were also registered through respective line departments under e-SHRAM in terms of defined targets. (KNS)

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