Labour ministry urges states to fast-track integration of data with e-Shram portal
labour ministry on Friday urged states to undertake labour reforms and expedite two-way integration of data for unorganised workers with the e-Shram portal for enabling easier access to central social protection and welfare schemes to them.
Chairing the second regional meeting with states in Chandigarh, Shobha Karandlaje, minister of state for labour and employment, highlighted the critical need for labour reforms to make India the world’s largest economy by 2047, the ministry said in a statement issued after the meeting.
“Our nation should transcend the colonial legacy in the existing labour laws which have originated in the pre-independence era. Therefore, the government has modernized, simplified and harmonized 29 labour laws into four Labour Codes,” she said.
Top labour ministry officials, including labour secretary Sumita Dawra attended the meeting held with northern states and union territories of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan.
This meeting is the second in a series of nationwide consultations being held by the ministry of labour and employment through six regional meetings with the states/UTs as it gears up to implement the Labour Codes and widen the social security network to cover all unorganized workers in the country.
The next meeting in this series of regional consultations with states and UTs is scheduled to be held in Rajkot for the western states and UTs in the following week.
Highlighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to provide comprehensive social
