The Ministry of Labour and Employment is working on a mechanism to process accident insurance claims by unorganized workers registered on the e-Shram portal.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ministry of Labour and Employment had launched the <\/span>e-Shram Portal<\/span><\/a> with the aim of creating a national database of unorganized workers and facilitating social security schemes for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the launch of the portal, the Government has said that the workers registered on the portal would also be eligible for \u20b92 lakh as accident insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n The government is planning to link the e-Shram portal with the <\/span>Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, <\/span><\/a>the Centre\u2019s existing accident insurance scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The scheme would allow the workers to get the direct benefit transfer(DBT) through the e-Shram unique ID number.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The unique IDs on the e-Shram portal carried the same series from the Employees Provident Fund Organization(EPFO) universal account number(UAN).<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> In Budget 2022-2023, the Finance Minister had announced the linking of four portals such as the National Career Service<\/a>, e-Shram, UDYAM<\/a> (for those interested in starting MSMEs) and ASEEM<\/a> (Atmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Among them, the inter-linking of the NCS and e-Shram portals had been completed. This linkage has enabled unorganized workers registered on e-Shram to seamlessly register on NCS and look for better job opportunities through NCS.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Mechanism to process unorganized workers\u2019 accident claims in the works, says Ministry<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu<\/b> on<\/span> 1st May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Labour and Employment is working on a mechanism to process accident insurance claims by unorganized workers registered on the e-Shram portal. What is e-Shram Portal? The Ministry of Labour and Employment had launched the e-Shram Portal with the aim of creating a national database of unorganized workers and… Continue reading Mechanism to process unorganized workers\u2019 accident claims in the works, says Ministry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-182311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704905260},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is e-Shram Portal?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How will the accidental insurance cover be provided?<\/b><\/h5>\n