Mechanism to process unorganised workers’ accident claims in the works, says Ministry

Prime functionaries of the Union Labour and Employment Ministry stated final week that the Ministry was engaged on a mechanism to course of accident insurance coverage claims by unorganised employees registered on the e-Shram portal, which has seen over 27 crore registrations up to now.

The portal was launched six months in the past with the intention of making a nationwide database of unorganised employees and to facilitate social safety schemes for them. Among the many guarantees made on the time was that the employees can be eligible for ₹2 lakh as accident insurance coverage.

A senior official of the Ministry stated discussions have been on to hyperlink the e-Shram portal with the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, the Centre’s present accident insurance coverage scheme. The scheme would permit the employees to get the direct profit switch (DBT) by means of the e-Shram distinctive ID quantity. The official added that the distinctive IDs on the e-Shram portal carried the identical collection from the Staff Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) common account quantity (UAN).

One other functionary stated {that a} “mechanism for disposal” of the claims was within the works. On the time the portal was launched in August 2021, the Ministry had estimated that there have been 38 crore unorganised sector employees within the nation. In keeping with the Ministry functionary, an evaluation of the registrations up to now was being carried out and a brand new marketing campaign to get extra employees to register would even be deliberate.

In her Funds Speech 2022-2023, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had introduced the linking of 4 portals _ the Nationwide Profession Service, e-Shram, UDYAM (for these fascinated by beginning MSMEs) and ASEEM (Atmanirbhar Expert Worker Employer Mapping). The Labour Ministry introduced on April 20 that the inter-linking of the NCS and e-Shram portals had been accomplished lately.

“This linkage has enabled unorganised employees registered on e-Shram to seamlessly register on NCS and search for higher job alternatives by means of NCS. To this point, greater than 26,000 e-Shram beneficiaries have registered on NCS and have began benefiting from this linkage,” the Ministry had stated in a press release.