Centre asks gig workers to register on e-Shram portal to avail health insurance

The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has urged gig and platform workers to register on the e-Shram portal. File
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The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has urged gig and platform workers to register on the e-Shram portal for formal recognition and access to benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).

The Ministry noted that the scheme provides a cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation across over 31,000 public and private empanelled hospitals in the country.

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The previous Budget had provided for the registration of online platform workers on the e-Shram portal, issuing identity cards to them, and for healthcare coverage under the AB-PMJAY.

“For the early implementation of these Budget provisions, the Ministry of Labour and Employment is soon launching the scheme. As a first step, the Ministry requests that the platform workers self-register on the e-Shram portal, so they may be considered for the benefits under the scheme at the earliest,” the Ministry stated in the statement.

The Centre asked platform aggregators to disseminate this information among the platform workers engaged with them and facilitate their registration on the e-Shram portal. “Platform workers may visit the e-Shram portal of this Ministry and complete their registration on priority basis,” the release added.