India, Feb. 13 -- In a major development for platform workers amid the discussions on the 2025 Union Budget, four major aggregators - Urban Company, Zomato, Blinkit and Uncle Delivery - have registered their workers on the e-Shram portal, joining an initiative of the ministry of labour and employment to register themselves and their gig employees. e-Shram is the national database of unorganised workers, through which registered workers could avail of recognition and social security benefits. While the portal has been active since 2021 and has seen a few hundred million registrations until the end of last year, the efforts to formally bulk onboard platform workers by their aggregators came to fruition earlier this week. The move is expected to encourage more aggregators to register their workers in real-time, expanding coverage and potential benefits for the gig economy workforce....