Lok Sabha Question No. 1074 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-02
Subject: Minimum Wage to Gig Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Ms Sayani Ghosh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1074 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.12.2024

## MINIMUM WAGE TO GIG WORKERS

1074. MS SAYANI GHOSH:

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

- (a)the details of total number of workers engaged in the gig economy as of now across the country;
- (b)whether  the  Government  has  received  any  data  from  the  State Governments on the minimum wage set by them under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled workers, nonmatriculate, matriculate, graduate, and above graduate and if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c)whether the e-commerce platforms are required to comply with the provisions  of  the  Minimum  Wages  Act,  1948  and  the  Code  on Wages, 2019 and if so, the details thereof along with the reasons why many e-commerce platforms do not have any minimum wage policy;
- (d)the steps taken by the Government to ensure local hourly minimum
- wage for gig workers; and
- (e)the details of gig workers availing the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan Yojana during the last five years, Statewise?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)  to  (e):  For  the  first  time,  the  definition  of  'gig  workers'  and 'platform  workers'  and  provisions  related  to  the  same  have  been provided  in  the  Code  on  Social  Security,  2020  which  has  been enacted by the Parliament.

As per an estimation by NITI Aayog vide its report titled 'India`s Booming Gig and Platform Economy' published in June 2022, the number of gig workers and platform workers in the country was 7.7  million  in  2020-21  which  is  expected  to  rise  to  23.5  million  by

2029-30.

The  Minimum  Wages  Act,  1948,  provides for fixing minimum rates of wages in scheduled employments. The provisions of  the  Minimum  Wages  Act,  1948,  have  been  rationalized  and subsumed under the Code on Wages, 2019 and the components of minimum  wages  stipulated  therein  also  provide  for  cost  of  living allowance.  Further,  the  Code  makes  minimum  wages  universally applicable across employments and thus moves ahead from restrictive  applicability  of  minimum  wages  limited  to  scheduled employments as provided for under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

The Government of India has introduced a pension scheme for  unorganised workers namely Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan (PM-SYM) to ensure old age protection for unorganised workers including  gig  and  platform  workers.  The scheme  was  launched  in March, 2019.

The  details  of  unorganized  workers,  including  gig  and platform workers, enrolled under PM-SYM scheme during the last five years, state-wise is annexed. *                                                   *****

Annexure referred in reply to part (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1074 for 02/12/2024.

State -wise enrollment under Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan ( PM-SYM) scheme in the last five years

| State/UT                                 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   2023-24 |
|------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands              |       824 |       275 |       175 |        32 |         9 |
| Andhra Pradesh                           |    107289 |      5951 |      1567 |     17800 |       627 |
| Arunachal Pradesh                        |      1580 |        75 |       208 |       175 |        77 |
| Assam                                    |      7559 |      3851 |      6352 |     10469 |      2843 |
| Bihar                                    |     75342 |     13711 |      9294 |     10347 |      1891 |
| Chandigarh                               |      3208 |        52 |        89 |        12 |        12 |
| Chhattisgarh                             |    109245 |      3635 |      5033 |     16040 |      1759 |
| Delhi                                    |      2664 |       579 |      1575 |       555 |       365 |
| Goa                                      |       727 |        36 |        26 |       972 |        17 |
| Gujarat                                  |     31047 |      1573 |      2419 |     16448 |      1837 |
| Haryana                                  |    219807 |     16136 |      9946 |      3922 |       459 |
| Himachal Pradesh                         |     26045 |      1181 |      2659 |      3089 |       138 |
| Jammu and Kashmir                        |     26765 |      6555 |      3150 |       599 |       257 |
| Jharkhand                                |     28130 |      1989 |      1645 |      4820 |       507 |
| Karnataka                                |     52400 |      8366 |     16241 |     15534 |      4836 |
| Kerala                                   |      2369 |      1121 |      1894 |      2984 |       224 |
| Ladakh                                   |       559 |         9 |         7 |         4 |         3 |
| Madhya Pradesh                           |     37694 |      4719 |      7568 |     46102 |      2203 |
| Maharashtra                              |     51025 |      6819 |      6989 |      8905 |      4758 |
| Manipur                                  |      1302 |       234 |       335 |      1488 |       151 |
| Meghalaya                                |      1178 |       792 |       411 |      2107 |       400 |
| Mizoram                                  |       120 |        54 |        60 |       469 |       164 |
| Nagaland                                 |      2525 |       736 |       138 |        91 |        35 |
| Odisha                                   |     48240 |      8706 |      7097 |     12541 |      2267 |
| Puducherry                               |       299 |        79 |        73 |      1049 |      3760 |
| Punjab                                   |     10912 |      1411 |      1544 |     22465 |       217 |
| Rajasthan                                |     37295 |      3090 |      2592 |     22053 |     14800 |
| Sikkim                                   |        42 |        21 |        17 |       166 |        20 |
| Tamil Nadu                               |     13671 |      2131 |      2322 |      6426 |      1904 |
| Telangana                                |     17500 |      2270 |      1777 |      6525 |       688 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |       574 |        37 |        21 |        20 |        43 |
| Tripura                                  |     12176 |      3074 |      1338 |      1371 |      1854 |
| Uttar Pradesh                            |    138680 |     23964 |     13168 |     19211 |     10656 |
| Uttarakhand                              |     14558 |      1224 |       493 |      3757 |       544 |
| West Bengal                              |     24374 |     12336 |     20146 |     13946 |      5450 |

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