Lok Sabha Question No. 162 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-01
Subject: Welfare of Migrant Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Shri Rajeev Rai

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 162 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2025

## WELFARE OF MIGRANT WORKERS

162. SHRI RAJEEV RAI:

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

- (a)whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  survey  on  migrant workers in the country;
- (b)if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;
- (c)whether the Government has undertaken any welfare measures to protect these migrant workers; and
- (d)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

Unorganised  Workers,  including Aadhaar.

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,  various  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).

The Government is implementing several social security and  welfare  schemes  for  unorganized  workers  including  migrant workers.  These  schemes  include;  (i)  Pradhan  Mantri  Jeevan  Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY), (ii) PM SVANidhi scheme, (iii) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, (iv)Ayushman  Bharat  Pradhan  Mantri  Jan  Arogya  Yojana  and  (v) Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM).

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