Parliament Question: Condition of Migrant Workers from Uttar Pradesh

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 444 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.02.2026 CONDITION OF MIGRANT WORKERS FROM UTTAR PRADESH 444. SHRI PUSHPENDRA SAROJ: ADV PRIYA SAROJ: MS IQRA CHOUDHARY: Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state: (a)the district-wise details of the number of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh employed in different destinations of the country during the last five years and the current year, year and State/UT- wise; (b)the district-wise details of the number of workers from Uttar Pradesh who have migrated within the State for employment purposes along with to the destination districts; (c)whether the Government has recorded an increase in cases of wage disputes, industrial accidents or denial of social security benefits among the migrant workers in the country, particularly Uttar Pradesh and if so, the details thereof; (d)the details of the number of complaints registered by migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh on the e-Shram portal and the Labour Facilitation portals; and (e)the details of the measures taken by the Government to ensure inter-State portability and to strengthen the protection and welfare of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh who migrate due to a lack of employment opportunities? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE) (a) to (e): The Ministry of Labour & Employment has launched eShram portal, a National Database of the Unorganised Workers on 26th August, 2021. The main objective of the eShram portal is to create a national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers seeded with Aadhaar, and facilitate delivery under existing Contd..2/-:: 2 :: Social Security and Welfare Schemes to such workers. It allows an unorganised worker to register himself or herself on the portal on a self- declaration basis. District-wise and State-wise details of unorganised workers registered on eShram portal, belonging to Uttar Pradesh, and migrated to different States of the country, are at Annexure-I and Annexure-II. However, as on 27.01.2026 over 31.49 crore unorganized workers including migrant workers have registered on eShram portal. District-wise details of the number of workers from Uttar Pradesh who have migrated within the State for employment purposes is at Annexure-III. Till 28.01.2026, 19649 complaints have been registered by migrant workers on the e-Shram portal. SAMADHAN Portal was launched for facilitating filing of industrial disputes by the workmen, employers and trade unions under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. It also has facilities for filing of claim cases by workers under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, The Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 & the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961. The portal has user friendly interface and has enhanced transparency and efficiency of grievance resolution for stakeholders. In keeping with the vision of the Budget Announcement 2024-25 on developing eShram as a One-Stop-Solution for unorganized workers to have access to various social security schemes, Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the eShram– “One-Stop-Solution” on 21st October 2024. eShram– “One-Stop- Solution” entails integration of different social security/ welfare schemes at single portal i.e. eShram. This enables unorganised workers registered on eShram to access social security schemes and see benefits availed by them so far, through eShram. So far, fourteen (14) schemes of different Central Ministries/ Departments have already been integrated/ mapped with the eShram to enhance social security coverage to unorganized workers including Pradhan Mantri Street Vendors Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PMSVANidhi), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY),Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), the Contd..3/-:: 3 :: Vikshit Bharat Guaranteefor Rozgar Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VBGRAMG), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G), Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U), Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandna Yojana (PMMVY), etc. Apart from the above, eShram has linkages with National Career Service (NCS) for Job Opportunities, Skill India Digital Hub (SIDH) for Skill Development and Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan- dhan (PM-SYM) for Pension. The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Act, 1979 has been subsumed in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, 2020. The OSH Code, provides for decent working conditions, minimum wages, grievances redressal mechanisms, toll free helpline, protection from abuse and exploitation, and social security to all category of organised and unorganized workers including migrant workers. The Code will be applicable to every establishment in which ten or more inter-state migrant workers are employed or were employed on any day in the preceding twelve months. Labour being under the Concurrent List, the enforcement of labour laws is done by the State Governments and the Central Government in their respective jurisdictions. While in the Central Sphere, the enforcement is done through the Inspecting Officers of Central Industrial Relations Machinery, the compliance in the State Sphere is ensured through the State Labour Enforcement Machinery. *** *****Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No. 444 for 02.02.2026 regarding “Condition of Migrant Workers From Uttar Pradesh” District-wise number of unorganised workers registered on eShram, who belongs to Uttar Pradesh and migrated to different States/ UTs of the country as on 28.01.2026: S. No. District Name Outward Migrants 1 Agra 2,195 2 Aligarh 2,708 3 Ambedkar Nagar 4,090 4 Amethi 3,969 5 Amroha 849 6 Auraiya 1,953 7 Ayodhya 3,633 8 Azamgarh 11,247 9 Baghpat 855 10 Bahraich 3,208 11 Ballia 8,116 12 Balrampur 3,566 13 Banda 2,635 14 Bara Banki 1,496 15 Bareilly 4,415 16 Basti 4,866 17 Bhadohi 4,456 18 Bijnor 4,440 19 Budaun 5,124 20 Bulandshahr 2,073 21 Chandauli 2,243 22 Chitrakoot 1,204 23 Deoria 7,767 24 Etah 1,838 25 Etawah 1,828 26 Farrukhabad 2,177 27 Fatehpur 3,264 28 Firozabad 1,960 29 Gautam Buddha Nagar 2,608 30 Ghaziabad 3,180 31 Ghazipur 7,311 32 Gonda 6,188 33 Gorakhpur 7,840 34 Hamirpur 1,473 35 Hapur 293 36 Hardoi 6,484 37 Hathras 1,312 38 Jalaun 2,070 39 Jaunpur 15,463 40 Jhansi 1,647 41 Kannauj 1,933 42 Kanpur Dehat 1,533 43 Kanpur Nagar 1,864 44 Kasganj 1,875S. No. District Name Outward Migrants 45 Kaushambi 1,543 46 Kheri 2,296 47 Kushinagar 5,806 48 Lalitpur 687 49 Lucknow 1,252 50 Mahoba 1,543 51 Mahrajganj 3,193 52 Mainpuri 2,221 53 Mathura 1,597 54 Mau 4,276 55 Meerut 908 56 Mirzapur 2,667 57 Moradabad 1,575 58 Muzaffarnagar 1,472 59 Pilibhit 1,671 60 Pratapgarh 7,256 61 Prayagraj 6,062 62 Rae Bareli 4,085 63 Rampur 1,638 64 Saharanpur 1,701 65 Sambhal 1,682 66 Sant Kabir Nagar 3,679 67 Shahjahanpur 3,662 68 Shamli 755 69 Shrawasti 1,139 70 Siddharthnagar 5,415 71 Sitapur 2,735 72 Sonbhadra 845 73 Sultanpur 5,322 74 Unnao 4,661 75 Varanasi 4,064 Total 2,48,657Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No. 444 for 02.02.2026 regarding “Condition of Migrant Workers From Uttar Pradesh”. Number of unorganised workers registered on eShram who belongs to Uttar Pradesh and migrated to different States/ UTs of the country as on 28.01.2026: S. No. State Migrant in state Migrant out count 1 Uttar Pradesh Andaman And Nicobar Islands 67 2 Uttar Pradesh Andhra Pradesh 331 3 Uttar Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 422 4 Uttar Pradesh Assam 510 5 Uttar Pradesh Bihar 3,545 6 Uttar Pradesh Chandigarh 2,376 7 Uttar Pradesh Chhattisgarh 1,089 8 Uttar Pradesh Delhi 40,015 9 Uttar Pradesh Goa 1,187 10 Uttar Pradesh Gujarat 34,167 11 Uttar Pradesh Haryana 48,049 12 Uttar Pradesh Himachal Pradesh 4,863 13 Uttar Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir 2,225 14 Uttar Pradesh Jharkhand 904 15 Uttar Pradesh Karnataka 2,270 16 Uttar Pradesh Kerala 371 17 Uttar Pradesh Ladakh 9 18 Uttar Pradesh Lakshadweep 4 19 Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh 3,749 20 Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra 57,577 21 Uttar Pradesh Manipur 80 22 Uttar Pradesh Meghalaya 28 23 Uttar Pradesh Mizoram 6 24 Uttar Pradesh Nagaland 149 25 Uttar Pradesh Odisha 343 26 Uttar Pradesh Puducherry 8 27 Uttar Pradesh Punjab 19,588 28 Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan 4,609 29 Uttar Pradesh Sikkim 60 30 Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu 665 31 Uttar Pradesh Telangana 1,886 32 Uttar Pradesh The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 3,010 33 Uttar Pradesh Tripura 16 34 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand 12,343 35 Uttar Pradesh West Bengal 2,136 Total 2,48,657Annexure-III Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No. 444 for 02.02.2026 regarding “Condition of Migrant Workers From Uttar Pradesh”. District-wise details of the number of workers from Uttar Pradesh who have migrated to a different district of Uttar Pradesh as on 28.01.2026: S. No. Row Labels Outward Migration Inward Migration 1 Agra 728 941 2 Aligarh 1,661 791 3 Ambedkar Nagar 1,077 343 4 Amethi 707 271 5 Amroha 466 247 6 Auraiya 868 270 7 Ayodhya 853 516 8 Azamgarh 1,809 627 9 Baghpat 390 202 10 Bahraich 557 342 11 Ballia 1,942 393 12 Balrampur 379 216 13 Banda 543 242 14 Bara Banki 1,002 428 15 Bareilly 962 763 16 Basti 961 373 17 Bhadohi 502 257 18 Bijnor 639 247 19 Budaun 1,534 398 20 Bulandshahr 2,341 876 21 Chandauli 826 360 22 Chitrakoot 238 139 23 Deoria 1,797 470 24 Etah 1,188 337 25 Etawah 739 325 26 Farrukhabad 1,044 327 27 Fatehpur 665 288 28 Firozabad 839 395 29 Gautam Buddha Nagar 2,505 19,085 30 Ghaziabad 1,917 9,089 31 Ghazipur 1,836 530 32 Gonda 1,032 446 33 Gorakhpur 1,582 1,924 34 Hamirpur 751 298 35 Hapur 574 293 36 Hardoi 2,456 474 37 Hathras 858 265 38 Jalaun 626 220 39 Jaunpur 1,662 704 40 Jhansi 383 343S. No. Row Labels Outward Migration Inward Migration 41 Kannauj 869 277 42 Kanpur Dehat 918 368 43 Kanpur Nagar 1,481 2,448 44 Kasganj 842 274 45 Kaushambi 398 130 46 Kheri 808 300 47 Kushinagar 1,473 710 48 Lalitpur 116 65 49 Lucknow 1,739 8,729 50 Mahoba 708 171 51 Mahrajganj 799 394 52 Mainpuri 1,260 321 53 Mathura 530 503 54 Mau 964 451 55 Meerut 863 843 56 Mirzapur 903 377 57 Moradabad 462 561 58 Muzaffarnagar 527 322 59 Pilibhit 360 193 60 Pratapgarh 1,342 389 61 Prayagraj 1,352 2,257 62 Rae Bareli 859 428 63 Rampur 349 206 64 Saharanpur 486 431 65 Sambhal 734 281 66 Sant Kabir Nagar 735 348 67 Shahjahanpur 1,178 558 68 Shamli 225 130 69 Shrawasti 169 108 70 Siddharthnagar 693 363 71 Sitapur 1,421 495 72 Sonbhadra 370 729 73 Sultanpur 1,067 471 74 Unnao 1,230 504 75 Varanasi 959 2,438 Grand Total 72,628 72,628 *****