Govt to open e-Shram portal for self-employed registration

To encourage self-employed workers to register themselves on the e-Shram portal, the government will introduce a facility aimed at bringing on the database people who own or run micro enterprises or are hawkers or vendors.

- SHIVA RAJORA

"When the registrations are done, many a time people engaged in small businesses like hawking and vending, or running a kirana store don't get themselves registered because they don't consider themselves 'workers'. However, essentially they are workers in the unorganised sector. Introducing a separate functionality on the portal to get these self-employed workers to register will help them to come within the ambit of this database," an official said.

Introducing this facility will help the labour ministry to have 200 million more unorganised-sector workers on the e-Shram portal, which remains outside any social-security net.