August 25, 2026 3:14 PM
Five years of e-Shram Portal: Building a digital social security net for India’s unorganised workforce
As India works towards the vision of Viksit Bharat, the e-Shram Portal is completing five years with a growing role in bringing millions of workers in the unorganised sector into a formal, technology-enabled social security ecosystem. Launched on August 26, 2021, by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, e-Shram was created to address a long-standing challenge: ensuring that workers outside the formal employment system can be identified, connected with welfare programmes and access social secur...