e-Shram registration tops 14 crore; most earn under Rs 10K a month
Over 14 crore employees have registered on the e-Shram portal after registration was enabled on it 4 months in the past, the Labour Ministry stated Saturday. “e-Shram portal in just about 4 months 14 crore crossed… Kudos to all those who made it possible,” Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav tweeted.
According to the information shared by the minister, as many as 14,02,92,825 casual sector employees registered on the e-Shram portal.
The newest knowledge of the portal reveals that the highest 5 states by way of variety of registration on e-Shram are Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand.
In gender phrases, 52.56 per cent of these registered are feminine employees whereas 47.44 per cent are male.
As per the information, about 42.64 per cent of registered employees are Other Backward Classes (OBC), adopted by 26.45 per cent from common class, 22.54 per cent from Scheduled Castes and eight.38 per cent from Scheduled Tribes.
Over 94 per cent registered employees’ earnings is Rs 10,000 per 30 days or under, whereas over 4 per cent have earnings within the vary of Rs 10,001 to Rs 15,000 per 30 days.
About 51 per cent registered employees are farm labourers, adopted by 11 per cent within the building sector, 10 per cent in home and family employees and 6.5 per cent within the attire phase.
About 61 per cent registered employees’ ages vary from 18 years to 40 years, 23 per cent within the vary of 40 years to 50 years, and 12 per cent above 50 years. About 4 per cent of registered employees are within the age group of 16 years to 18 years.
The e-Shram portal, which was launched on August 26, will for the primary time present perception into unorganised sector employees together with migrant employees, gig employees, agricultural employees, anganwadi employees, avenue distributors, home employees amongst others. As of now, such a database is offered primarily just for organised employees by means of the registered employees underneath EPFO. The database will probably be analysed to test for employees who’ve had any prior registration with the formal sector by means of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) since each registrations have a typical format of a 12-digit identification quantity, Universal Account Number (UAN).
