New Delhi: The national database of the informal sector workforce, e-Shram portal, has 31.38 crore registered unorganised workers, Parliament was informed on Thursday.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the e-Shram portal (eshram.gov.in) on 26th August 2021 for the creation of a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW) seeded with Aadhaar.
The e-Shram portal is meant to register and support the unorganised workers by providing them with a Universal Account Number (UAN) on a self-declaration basis.
As of 27th November 2025, over 31.38 crore unorganised workers have already been registered on the e-Shram portal, stated Minister of State for Labour and Employment Sushri Shobha Karandlaje in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
In keeping with the vision of the Budget Announcement 2024-25 on developing e-Shram as a One-Stop-Solution for unorganised workers to have access to various social security schemes, the Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the e-Shram’One-Stop-Solution’ on 21st October 2024.
E-Shram ‘One-Stop-Solution’ entails integration of different social security/ welfare schemes at a single portal, i.e., e-Shram.
This enables unorganised workers registered on e-Shram to access social security schemes and see the benefits availed by them so far.
