India, March 29 -- As many as 70,000 gig workers have reportedly registered with the e-Shram portal, benefitting from social security schemes, following the onboarding of ten major ecommerce platforms such as Uber, Zomato and Blinkit, a parliamentary panel has observed.

An ET report, citing Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, noted that as of February 19 this year, 70,306 platform workers of 36 states/UTs have been registered with e-Shram.

Apart from the aforementioned ecommerce players, Uncle Delivery, Swiggy, Rapido, Ola, Zepto and Ecom Express have also been onboarded on the portal.

The committee has also directed to look for other aggregators and swiftly register them on the portal in order to provide healthcare support to ...