Lok Sabha Question No. 1831 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-10
Subject: Migrant Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Kamakhya Prasad Tasa

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1831 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.03.2025

## MIGRANT WORKERS

## 1831. SHRI KAMAKHYA PRASAD TASA:

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

- (a)whether the Government has conducted any survey of migrated workers across the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (b)whether the Government has formulated any policies to protect the interests of migrated workers from the North-Eastern Region in the  country,  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  if  not,  the  reasons therefor;
- (c)whether  the  Government  is  aware  of  the  rising  number  of complaints regarding the exploitation of migrated workers from the North-eastern Region to Southern States, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d)whether  the  Government  has  formulated  any  portal  for  the registration of migrated workers to protect their interests in the country and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (d): Labour Bureau, an attached office of Ministry of Labour & Employment has conducted an All India Survey on Migrant Workers. The field work of the survey has been completed.

In order to safeguard the interests of the migrant workers the Central Government had enacted the Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979. This Act has now been subsumed in the Occupational Safety, Health  and  the  Working  Conditions  (OSH)  Code.  The  OSH  Code provides for decent working conditions, minimum wages, grievance redressal  mechanisms,  protection  from  abuse  and  exploitation, enhancement of skills and social security to all categories of workers including migrant workers.

Ministry of Labour & Employment has launched on 26th August, 2021 the e-Shram portal which is a National Database of the migrant  workers,  seeded  with Aadhaar. The portal has been made available to the States/UTs for registration of various categories of unorganized workers on e-Shram portal.  As  on  04.03.2025,  over  30.68  crore  unorganized  workers,

Unorganised  Workers,  including including migrant workers, are registered on e-Shram.

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

So far, 13 schemes  of different Central Ministries/ Departments have already been integrated/ mapped with the eShram 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 Act (MGNREGA), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G), Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban (PMAY-U) and Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY).

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