New Delhi: The number of unorganized sector workers registration at E-Shram portal has been rising steadily over the 12 weeks since its launch. As on 20th November, which is more than 12 weeks since registration started, around 8,43,89,193 total number of unorganized workers have registered at the E-Shram portal, with an increase of 13,10,758 total workers registered the previous day.

It is pertinent to observe that the huge success in registration in e-Shram portal is due to unified command and control and regular directions and meticulous monitoring by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Labour & Employment, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, with the spirited co-operation of all the senior officers in the Ministry and the state governments along with the massive involvement of central trade union leaders and their state counterparts. 

The week-wise data on the increase in number of registrations at the E-Shram portal over the previous 12 weeks since registration started on 24th August, recorded maximum increase of such registrations for the 10th week (2nd-8th November) 1,15,66,985 registrations, followed by the 7th week (12th -18th October) 86,83,881 registrations.

In the previous six weeks since 5th October onwards, a spike in registration of unorganised sector workers through State Seva Kendras has been recorded, with the largest such increase occurring in the preceding week (9th to 16th November 2021) and it almost doubling from 24,842 to 53,970 registrations.

Over the past 12 weeks, the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have the highest average growth rates of more than 15 per cent regarding the registration of workers at the e-Shram portal. In the 12th week (9th to 16th November 2021) registrations at the e-Shram portal were particularly high for the states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and moderately high in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Punjab, Odisha and Bihar. /BI/