Goemkarponn Desk
SANKHALI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today distributed 160 E-Shram cards to beneficiaries at a program held at Ravindra Bhavan.
“It gives me immense pleasure to distribute E-Shram cards to 160 beneficiaries. This card will help them seek various types of incentives from government,” said Sawant
He further said that insurance cover for the first year will be completely paid by union government under the scheme.
CM said that one of the objective of the eShram portal is to extend the benefits of social security and welfare schemes to unorganised workers especially migrant workers, and to identify workers who are deprived of the various benefits of the welfare schemes of the Central and/or State Government due to lack of awareness or otherwise.
With this objective, Ministry of Labour & Employment initiated matching of the eShram beneficiaries’ data with the Ration Card (National Food Security Act (NFSA)) data available with the Department of Food and Public Distribution(DFPD).
The complete data set of Ration card was made available by the DFPD to the Ministry of Labour & Employment. On matching of the two data sets, it has been observed that out of total 28.60 crore eShram registrants, about 20.63 crore eShram registrants are registered in NFSA database of DFPD and about 7.96 core eShram registrants are yet to get registered on NFSA data.
