New Delhi, March 10 -- As on March 3, over 30.68 crore unorganised workers have already registered on e-Shram portal, with more than half of them being female by 53.68 per cent, the Ministry of Labour and Employment said.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched e-Shram portal (eshram.gov.in) on August 26, 2021 for creation of a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) seeded with Aadhaar.

E-Shram portal is meant to register and support the unorganised workers by providing them a Universal Account Number (UAN) on a self-declaration basis.

In keeping with the vision of the Budget Announcement on developing e-Shram as a One-Stop-Solution for unorganized workers to have access to various social security schemes,...