Lok Sabha Question No. 34 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-11-25
Subject: Job Security in Informal Sector
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 34

TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.11.2024

## JOB SECURITY IN INFORMAL SECTOR

34. SHRI SAPTAGIRI SANKAR ULAKA:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)whether the Government has planned for improving job security and fair wages for workers in the informal sector;
- (b)if so, the details thereof regarding the number of jobs created in rural areas through recent employment schemes;
- (c)the  details  of  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to address labour migration from rural areas to cities and the manner in which the rural job market being strengthened; and
- (d)the in which Mahatma  Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)  has  been  effective in providing employment during the last fiscal year?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SUSHRI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE)

(a) to (d): Employment generation coupled with improving employability is the priority concern of the Government. Government has taken various steps for generating employment in the country like  encouraging  private  sector  of  economy,  fast  tracking  various projects  involving  substantial  investment  and  increasing  public expenditure on schemes like Prime Mini ster's Employment Generation  Programme  (PMEGP),  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY)  and  Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). The  Make  in  India,  Skill  India,  Digital  India  schemes  are  being implemented by the Government and these are likely to enhance the employment base. MUDRA and START UPS scheme are initiated by the Government for facilitating self-employment.

Further,  the  Government  launched  e-Shram  portal  in August,  2021  with  an  objective  to  create  National  Database  of Unorganised  Workers  and  to  facilitate  delivery  of  Social  Security

Schemes/Welfare Schemes to the unorganised  workers.

Ministry of Labour and Employment has now launched the eShram -'One -  StopSolution'  on  21 st   October  2024.  eShram -'One StopSolution' entails integration of different Social Security/ Welfare schemes  at  single  portal  i.e.,  eShram.  This  enables  unorganised workers registered on eShram to access social security schemes and see benefits availed by them so far, on single portal i.e., eShram. For example, workers will be able to see MGNREGA job card, PMAY-G statement, PM-SYM statement, Ration card details, search of NCS job opportunities etc. on eShram -One Stop Solution.

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural  Employment  Guarantee scheme  (Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGS)  is  a  demand  driven  wage employment scheme  which provides for the enhancement  of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in  every  financial  year  to  every  household  whose  adult  members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

The  employment  provided  under  MGNREGA  scheme  (in person-days generated) in the year 2023-24 is 312.26 crore and funds released in the year 2023-24 is Rs. 88554.76 crore.

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