The District Administration Srinagar organized a special camp on e-SHRAM Portal for Awareness and Registration of unorganized workers working in the Education Department including Contingent Paid workers, part-time employees etc. at S.P Higher Secondary School Srinagar here Saturday.
The programme was organized on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad by the Office of Assistant Labour Commissioner.
Deputy Chief Education Officer, Srinagar, Dr Anjum, Principal S.P Higher Secondary School, Assistant Labour Commissioner, Srinagar Arshid Ahmad Bhat and others concerned were present in the awareness program.
During the camp, the Assistant Labour Commissioner (ALC) interacted with the scores of Contingent Paid workers and Part-Time Employees working in the Education Department and informed them about the process and benefits of getting registered on e-SHRAM Portal.
The ALC said that special camps and awareness programmes are being organised for the purpose through the common service centres (CSC) across the district Srinagar.
He said Registration on the e-SHRAM portal requires Aadhaar details, bank account number linked with Aadhar card and age limit of 18 to 59.
He further informed the participants that it is the first-ever National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) created by the Ministry of Labour and Employment to register the Un-organized workers including migrant workers, construction workers, domestic help, ASHA and Anganwadi workers, Street vendors, Rickshaw pullers, Farmers, Agricultural labourers, Animal husbandry workers, Barbers, weavers, Carpenters, Brick kiln, Quarry workers, Sawmill workers, Vegetable and Fruit vendors, Newspapers vendors, Auto drivers, Sericulture workers, housemaids and other such workers to get benefits of the Government schemes.
On the occasion, the ALC informed that to date more than 17000 unorganized workers have been registered in Srinagar District and further registrations are going on so that they are covered for the Government benefits.
