Social security benefits: Platform aggregators asked to register workers on e-Shram portal

The e-Shram portal serves as nationwide database of unorganised workers, designed to provide them with access to social security & welfare schemes

The government has invited platform aggregators to register their gig workers on the e-Shram portal that could help them access various social security benefits. This registration is crucial to ensure workers' access to social welfare schemes, the Ministry of Labour and Employment in a statement said, adding that aggregators will help develop an accurate registry of beneficiaries.

"The Ministry of Labour & Employment has taken another major step in extending social security benefits to gig and platform workers by inviting platform aggregators to register their workers on the e-Shram portal," it said.