e-Shram card registration done? Check process, benefits and other details
e-SHRAM portal, a national database for unorganised workers, has been launched by the central government for their overall welfare. The portal will be seeded with the Aadhaar cards. If you have not registered yet then you can know the registration process, benefits, glossary and other details here:
How to register?
An unorganised worker may register himself/herself through visiting on the e-SHRAM portal or through assisted approach by visiting the nearest CSC’s. To register the e-SHRAM portal, login to the official website at eshram.gov.in. Click on the 'Register on e-SHRAM' link on the home page. Enter the Aadhaar-linked mobile number and captcha code and click on send OTP and follow the subsequent instructions to complete the registration process.
Benefits
After registering with the portal, workers will get an Accidental Insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh under Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY). In future, all the social security benefits of unorganised workers will be delivered through this portal. In emergency and national pandemic like situations, this database may be utilised to provide necessary assistance to the eligible unorganized workers. Also, after the registration, the workers will be issued an e-SHRAM card with a unique Universal Account Number (UAN) and they will be able to access the benefits of the various social security schemes through this card anywhere anytime.
Glossary: Unorganised Sector and Unorganised Worker
Unorganised sector is an enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers and engaged in the production or sale of goods or providing service of any kind whatsoever, and where the enterprise employs workers, the number of such workers is less than ten. An unorganised worker is a home-based worker, self-employed worker or a wage worker in the unorganised sector and includes a worker in the organised sector who is not covered by any of the Acts mentioned in Schedule II to the Social Security Act. (Image source:PTI)
Contract Labour
A worker who shall be deemed to be employed in or in connection with the work of an establishment when he is hired in or in connection with such work by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer and includes inter-State migrant worker but does not include an employee (other than part time employee) who is regularly employed by the contractor for any activity of his establishment and his employment is governed by mutually accepted standards of the conditions of employment (including engagement on permanent basis), and gets periodical increment in the pay, social security coverage and other welfare benefits in accordance with the law for the time being in force in such employment. (Image source: Reuters)
Wages
All remuneration, whether by way of salaries, allowances or otherwise, expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a person employed in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment.