For e-Shram to become a watershed, there is a need to relook certain features associated with it. Examine (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· Centre launched its e-Shram portal to create a national Aadhaar-seeded database of unorganised workers which it hopes to use for effectively targeting social security schemes.
· Under the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, a similar attempt was made, but it resulted in the registration of just 120 million workers.
· Workers can register on the portal with the help of Aadhaar and bank account details, following which they will get a 12 digit unique number.
· While rural distress can be contained, migrant workers fall through the cracks in the absence of any central register to enumerate them.
· Clearly, an electronic registration system that can be accessed anywhere is the need of the hour.
· A decentralised registration process, involving the participation of municipalities, panchayats and civil society groups, should take the place of a bureaucratised one.
· The Centre should advertise and educate the masses. It should be easy for workers registered under other welfare boards to enlist on this portal.
· For those without Aadhaar, other national IDs such as voters’ card should be permitted. The e-Shram push should be backed by the money it needs.
· The portal should be able to handle the data of more than 400 million people. In sum e-Shram needs some hard work to get going.
ANIL KUMAR RAM 3 years
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IAS Parliament 3 years
Good attempt. Keep Writing.
