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Date: 2025-08-11 Category: Not Applicable State: Union Government Country: India

Parliament Question: Registration of Gig and Platform Workers on e-Shram Portal

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Executive Summary: The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the eShram portal on August 26, 2021, to create a National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW). As of August 3, 2025, over 30.98 crore unorganised workers, including over 3.37 lakh platform workers, have registered on the portal. The initiative aims to register and support unorganised workers by providing a Universal Account Number (UAN) on a self-declaration basis. Key Points / Main Content: * **eShram Portal and Registration:** * eShram portal (eshram.gov.in) launched on August 26, 2021. * Aims to create a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) seeded with Aadhaar. * Provides a Universal Account Number (UAN) to registered workers on a self-declaration basis. * As of August 3, 2025, over 30.98 crore unorganised workers registered, including over 3.37 lakh platform workers. * State and gender-wise details of registered workers are available in Annexure I. * Top ten states with the highest registrations are listed in Annexure II. * **Promotion of eShram Registration:** * Periodic review meetings with States/UTs. * Regular meetings with Common Services Centres (CSC). * Integration with National Career Service (NCS) and Skill India Digital Portal for employment and skilling opportunities. * Integration with myScheme portal for one-stop search of Government schemes. * SMS campaigns and social media platforms for awareness. * Onboarding State Seva Kendras (SSKs) and CSCs for assisted registrations. * Registration camps and awareness drives in coordination with CSC, DTNBWED, and State Labour Departments. * **Registration Targets:** * Targets based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 by the National Statistics Office (NSO). * Target number of registrations for each State/UT decided based on population. * State-wise progress in achieving targeted registrations is detailed in Annexure III. Impact Analysis: **States/Union Territories:** * Impact: Required to participate in review meetings, facilitate registration through State Seva Kendras, and coordinate awareness drives. Progress against targets is monitored. * Action Required: Conduct review meetings, coordinate with CSCs and relevant departments, and promote registration through awareness campaigns. **Common Service Centres (CSCs):** * Impact: Play a crucial role in assisted registrations and awareness campaigns. * Action Required: Facilitate assisted registrations, participate in promotional activities, and coordinate with the Ministry and State departments. **Unorganised Workers:** * Impact: Benefit from a Universal Account Number (UAN), access to government schemes, employment, and skilling opportunities. * Action Required: Register on the eShram portal on a self-declaration basis or through assisted registration at CSCs. **Ministry of Labour and Employment:** * Impact: Responsible for the overall implementation, monitoring, and promotion of the eShram portal. * Action Required: Conduct review meetings, coordinate with States/UTs and CSCs, and manage the eShram portal and related integrations.

Key Entities Referenced

eShram Portal: A portal launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment for the creation of a National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW). Ministry of Labour and Employment: The Indian government ministry responsible for labour and employment policies and regulations. National Database of Unorganised Workers: A comprehensive database of unorganised workers in India, seeded with Aadhaar, created through the eShram portal. Universal Account Number: A unique identification number assigned to unorganised workers upon registration on the eShram portal. National Career Service: A platform integrated with eShram to provide employment opportunities. Skill India Digital Portal: A platform integrated with eShram to provide skilling opportunities. Common Services Centre: A network of access points for delivery of various digital services, used to facilitate registrations for the eShram portal. Uttar Pradesh: A state in India with the highest number of registrations on the eShram portal.
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 316 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.08.2025 REGISTRATION OF GIG AND PLATFORM WORKERS ON e-SHRAM PORTAL *316. SHRI P P CHAUDHARY: SHRI DAMODAR AGRAWAL: Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state: (a)the details of the number of gig and platform workers registered on the e-Shram Portal; (b)the details of overall status of registrations on the e-Shram Portal since its inception; (c)the details of the unorganised workers registered on the e-Shram Portal, State and gender-wise; (d)the details of the list of top ten States reporting the highest number of registrations along with the steps taken/being taken by the Government to further promote registration on the e-Shram Portal; and (e)whether any target has been given to the States for registration of unorganised workers on the said portal and if so, the criteria used to determine fix such target for each State and the progress in achieving the registration target on e-Shram Portal, State-wise? MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (DR. MANSUKH MANDAVIYA) (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House. **** *****STATEMENT REFERED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 316* FOR 11.08.2025 REGARDING “Registration of Gig and Platform Workers on e-Shram Portal” RAISED BY Shri P P Chaudhary & Shri Damodar Agarwal. (a) to (e): The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched eShram portal (eshram.gov.in) on 26th August 2021 for creation of a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) seeded with Aadhaar. eShram portal is meant to register and support the unorganised workers by providing them a Universal Account Number (UAN) on a self-declaration basis. As on 3rd August 2025, over 30.98 crore of unorganised workers have been registered on eShram portal, including over 3.37 lakh workers have registered themselves as Platform workers. State and gender-wise details of the unorganised workers registered on the e-Shram Portal is at Annexure - I. The details of top ten States reporting highest number of registrations on e-Shram is at Annexure - II. Steps taken by the Ministry to promote registrations on eShram portal and increase awareness among unorganised workers include: i. Holding periodic review meeting with States/UTs. ii. Regular meeting with Common Services Centre (CSC). iii. To provide employment and skilling opportunities, eShram is integrated with National Career Service (NCS) and Skill India Digital Portal. iv. To offer one-stop search and discovery of the Government schemes, eShram is integrated with myScheme portal. v. SMS campaign to create awareness. vi. Social media platforms are also being used to spread awareness among workers to register on eShram. State Seva Kendras (SSKs) and services of Common Service Centres are onboarded to facilitate assisted mode registrations of unorganised workers.vii. Registration camps and awareness drives are conducted for the implementation and outreach of the e-Shram Scheme. These camps are organised by Ministry from time to time in coordination with Common Service Centre (CSC), Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education and Development (DTNBWED) and State Labour Department. The registration targets of unorganised workers are based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey carried out by the National Statistics Office (NSO) in 2017-18. Further, target number of registrations for each States/UTs has been decided on the basis of population of States/UTs. As on 3rd August 2025, State-wise progress in achieving the targeted number of registrations on e-Shram is at Annexure – III.Annexure – I Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 316* for 11.08.2025 regarding “Registration of Gig and Platform Workers on e-Shram Portal”. State and gender-wise details of the unorganised workers registered on the e-Shram portal as on date 03.08.2025 :– S. Female Male Other State/UT No. Registrants Registrants Registrants 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 17,241 17,202 - 2 Andhra Pradesh 47,93,518 38,22,367 718 3 Arunachal Pradesh 1,22,222 87,659 1 4 Assam 40,62,809 36,50,273 107 5 Bihar 1,71,70,123 1,28,57,591 102 6 Chandigarh 94,648 93,801 8 7 Chhattisgarh 47,64,801 38,38,092 91 8 Delhi 18,23,304 17,55,369 127 9 Goa 51,801 31,164 2 10 Gujarat 57,58,903 64,18,817 153 11 Haryana 26,23,070 27,78,950 53 12 Himachal Pradesh 10,97,545 9,05,810 26 13 Jammu and Kashmir 16,87,419 19,11,385 44 14 Jharkhand 54,16,583 42,77,689 177 15 Karnataka 63,24,216 45,62,606 744 16 Kerala 36,53,096 24,12,848 167 17 Ladakh 17,228 17,456 - 18 Lakshadweep 1,099 1,744 - 19 Madhya Pradesh 93,58,816 95,69,475 200 20 Maharashtra 98,69,773 79,83,582 748 21 Manipur 2,89,649 1,74,006 90 22 Meghalaya 2,29,627 1,22,738 3 23 Mizoram 40,327 31,923 - 24 Nagaland 1,34,179 1,04,130 8 25 Odisha 71,07,139 64,98,502 1,147 26 Puducherry 1,08,818 85,923 35 27 Punjab 33,34,174 25,28,544 82 28 Rajasthan 78,33,643 70,70,167 101 29 Sikkim 25,164 23,615 1 30 Tamil Nadu 59,42,808 33,69,800 1,249 31 Telangana 22,27,863 23,13,956 385 The Dadra & Nagar Haveli and 32 39,699 35,704 1 Daman & Diu 33 Tripura 4,33,545 4,62,677 47 34 Uttar Pradesh 4,41,33,909 3,98,44,839 471 35 Uttarakhand 17,26,307 13,59,870 18 36 West Bengal 1,43,99,209 1,20,81,375 636Annexure – II Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 316* for 11.08.2025 regarding “Registration of Gig and Platform Workers on e-Shram Portal” The details of the list of top ten States reporting the highest number of registrations on e- Shram portal as on 03.08.2025: S. No State Total Registrations 1 Uttar Pradesh 8,39,79,219 2 Bihar 3,00,27,816 3 West Bengal 2,64,81,220 4 Madhya Pradesh 1,89,28,491 5 Maharashtra 1,78,54,103 6 Rajasthan 1,49,03,911 7 Odisha 1,36,06,788 8 Gujarat 1,21,77,873 9 Karnataka 1,08,87,566 10 Jharkhand 96,94,449Annexure – III Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 316* for 11.08.2025 regarding “Registration of Gig and Platform Workers on e-Shram Portal”. State-wise progress in achieving the targeted number of registrations on e-Shram portal as on 03.08.2025:- S. No State/ UT Target Total registration 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1,16,770 34,443 2 Andhra Pradesh 1,50,92,950 86,16,605 3 Arunachal Pradesh 4,39,728 2,09,883 4 Assam 99,69,971 77,13,190 5 Bihar 3,49,43,979 3,00,27,828 6 Chandigarh 3,24,372 1,88,453 7 Chhattisgarh 82,42,144 86,02,990 8 Delhi 52,39,058 35,78,780 9 Goa 4,44,150 82,964 10 Gujarat 1,78,84,271 1,21,77,875 11 Haryana 78,97,313 54,02,090 12 Himachal Pradesh 20,86,547 20,03,380 13 Jammu & Kashmir 38,09,769 35,98,847 14 Jharkhand 1,08,06,305 96,94,444 15 Karnataka 1,89,17,552 1,08,87,570 16 Kerala 99,95,844 60,66,111 17 Ladakh 80,926 34,684 18 Lakshadweep 20,491 2,843 19 Madhya Pradesh 2,39,00,510 1,89,28,479 20 Maharashtra 3,44,80,382 1,78,54,109 21 Manipur 8,65,632 4,63,745 22 Meghalaya 9,42,678 3,52,368 23 Mizoram 3,46,988 72,250 24 Nagaland 6,29,914 2,38,317 25 Odisha 1,29,79,773 1,36,06,783 26 Puducherry 3,95,791 1,94,778 27 Punjab 84,39,584 58,62,795 28 Rajasthan 2,26,89,152 1,49,03,876 29 Sikkim 1,93,270 48,780 30 Tamil Nadu 2,17,95,554 93,13,854 31 Telangana 1,07,83,075 45,42,201 The Dadra & Nagar Haveli and 32 1,72,402 75,405 Daman & Diu 33 Tripura 11,67,542 8,96,269 34 Uttar Pradesh 6,66,07,163 8,39,79,263 35 Uttarakhand 31,50,240 30,86,185 36 West Bengal 2,78,90,604 2,64,81,229 *****

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