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Kuldeep Negi
Oct 20, 2024, 02:56 PM | Updated 02:56 PM IST
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The Central government is set to launch the ‘eShram-One Stop Solution’ initiative to facilitate easier access of government schemes to unorganised workers.
Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will launch the ‘eShram-One Stop Solution’ on Monday (21 October).
"In keeping with the vision of the recent Budget Announcement on developing eShram as a One-Stop-Solution for unorganized labour to have access to various social sector schemes, Union Minister of labour & Employment and Youth Affairs & Sports will launch the ‘eShram-One Stop Solution’ on 21.10.2024," the Labour Ministry said in a statement today (20 October).
According to the ministry, eShram-One Stop Solution will act as a mediator to ensure that unorganized workers have easy access to a variety of Government schemes and programmes.
This initiative will help unorganized workers become aware of the schemes designed for them, it added.
"eShram-One Stop Solution aims to integrate information of beneficiaries of all social security and welfare schemes meant for unorganised workers in an effective manner through a single platform," the ministry said.
It added that eShram as a One-Stop-Solution will help to facilitate in identification and implementation of the social security and welfare schemes for the unorganised worker and to help saturation of the schemes in the fast and effective manner.
"Consequently, 12 schemes of different Central Ministries / Departments have already been integrated/ mapped with the eShram," the ministry added.
Since the launch of e-Shram on 26 August 2021, over 30 crore unorganized workers have been enrolled on the platform.
Kuldeep is Senior Editor (Newsroom) at Swarajya. He tweets at @kaydnegi.