Lok Sabha Question No. 3607 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-11
Subject: Migrant Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Shafi Parambil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3607

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.08.2025

## MIGRANT WORKERS

## 3607.   SHRI SHAFI PARAMBIL:

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  inter-State  migrant  workers  in  the  country, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether the Government has data on the States from which the workers migrate to another State;
- if so, the name of the first three States from which largest number
- (c) of workers migrated to other States; and
- (d) the details of the welfare measures facilitated by the Government to inter-State migrant workers?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (d): The  Ministry  of  Labour  &  Employment  has  launched eShram portal, a National Database of the Unorganised Workers on 26th  August,  2021.  The  main  objective  of  the  eShram  portal  is  to create a national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers seeded with Aadhaar, and facilitate delivery under existing Social Security and Welfare Schemes to such workers. It allows an unorganised worker to register himself or herself on the portal on a selfdeclaration basis. As on 05.08.2025, over 30.98 crore unorganized workers including migrant workers have registered on eShram portal. State-wise number of unorganized workers including migrant workers registered on eShram portal is annexed.

The first three States with the largest number  of unorganized workers including migrant workers registered on eShram portal are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

In keeping with the vision of the Budget Announcement, 2024-25, on developing eShram as a "One-Stop-Solution" for unorganized workers including migrant workers to have access to various social security schemes, Ministry of Labour and Employment launched  the  eShram-  "One-Stop-Solution"  on  21st  October  2024. eShram-"One-Stop-  Solution"  entails  integration  of  different  social security/ welfare schemes on a single portal i.e. eShram. This enables unorganised  workers,  including  migrant  workers,  registered  on eShram to access social security schemes and see benefits availed by them so far, through eShram.

So far, fourteen (14) schemes of different Central Ministries/ Departments have already been integrated/ mapped with the  eShram  to  extend  benefits  and  access  to  social  security, insurance or skill development programmes to eShram cardholders including Pradhan Mantri Street Vendors Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PMSVANidhi), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY),Pradhan  Mantri Jeevan  Jyoti Bima  Yojana (PMJJBY), National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana -Gramin (PMAY-G), Ayushman Bharat -Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana -Urban (PMAY-U),  Pradhan  Mantri  Matsya  Sampada  Yojana  (PMMSY)  and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandna Yojana (PMMVY).

In order to safeguard the interest of the Migrant workers, the Parliament has enacted  the Inter-State  Migrant  Workmen (Regulation  of  Employment  and  Conditions  of  Services)  Act,  1979 which, inter alia, provides for registration of certain establishments employing Inter-State Migrant Workers, licensing of contractors etc. Workers  employed  with  such  establishment  are  to  be  provided payment  of  minimum  wages,  journey  allowance,  displacement allowance, residential accommodation, medical facilities protective clothing etc.

The  enforcement  authorities  under  Central  Industrial Relations  Machinery  (CIRM)  conduct  regular  inspections  of  the registered  establishments  and  licensed  contractors  in  the  Central Sphere. The State Governments are mandated to enforce the Act, in the State Sphere.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (d) OF LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 3607 FOR 11.08.2025 REGARDING 'MIGRANT WORKERS' RAISED BY SHRI SHAFI PARAMBIL, MP(LS).

States/UTs  -wise  number  of  unorganised  workers  including  migrant  workers  registered  on  eShram portal, as on 05.08.2025

|   S. N. | States                                     | Registration on eShram Portal as on 05.08.2025   |
|---------|--------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | ANDAMANANDNICOBAR ISLANDS                  | 34,455                                           |
|       2 | ANDHRA PRADESH                             | 86,18,260                                        |
|       3 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH                          | 2,09,908                                         |
|       4 | ASSAM                                      | 77,13,924                                        |
|       5 | BIHAR                                      | 3,00,29,469                                      |
|       6 | CHANDIGARH                                 | 1,88,480                                         |
|       7 | CHHATTISGARH                               | 86,03,259                                        |
|       8 | DELHI                                      | 35,79,202                                        |
|       9 | GOA                                        | 82,998                                           |
|      10 | GUJARAT                                    | 1, 21,79,153                                     |
|      11 | HARYANA                                    | 54,02,184                                        |
|      12 | HIMACHAL PRADESH                           | 20,03,493                                        |
|      13 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR                          | 35,99,050                                        |
|      14 | JHARKHAND                                  | 96,94,965                                        |
|      15 | KARNATAKA                                  | 1,08,88,631                                      |
|      16 | KERALA                                     | 60,66,525                                        |
|      17 | LADAKH                                     | 34,686                                           |
|      18 | LAKSHADWEEP                                | 2,843                                            |
|      19 | MADHYAPRADESH                              | 1,89,30,439                                      |
|      20 | MAHARASHTRA                                | 1,78,55,616                                      |
|      21 | MANIPUR                                    | 4,63,867                                         |
|      22 | MEGHALAYA                                  | 3,52,419                                         |
|      23 | MIZORAM                                    | 72,255                                           |
|      24 | NAGALAND                                   | 2,38,334                                         |
|      25 | ODISHA                                     | 1,36,07,406                                      |
|      26 | PUDUCHERRY                                 | 1,94,804                                         |
|      27 | PUNJAB                                     | 58,63,282                                        |
|      28 | RAJASTHAN                                  | 1,49,06,374                                      |
|      29 | SIKKIM                                     | 48,796                                           |
|      30 | TAMIL NADU                                 | 93,15,434                                        |
|      31 | TELANGANA                                  | 45,42,660                                        |
|      32 | THE DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI AND DAMANANDDIU | 75,408                                           |
|      33 | TRIPURA                                    | 8,96,317                                         |
|      34 | UTTAR PRADESH                              | 8,39,81,159                                      |
|      35 | UTTARAKHAND                                | 30,86,316                                        |
|      36 | WEST BENGAL                                | 2,64,81,453                                      |

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