Labour Minister advocates to providing medical insurance, pension and other benefits to workers registered under e-Shram
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, February 4:
Punjab Labour Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond has revealed that Department of labour has registered 57,75,402 workers on e-Shram portal launched by Govt. of India for registration of unorganized workers. Recently, Sond has proposed that workers registered under e-Shram be provided with medical insurance, stipends for their children, and pension benefits after retirement during a two-day conference of Labour Ministers and Labour Secretaries, which concluded in New Delhi.
He said that under the leadership of CM Bhagwant Singh Mann, The Punjab Building & Other Construction workers welfare board has made various reforms like Simplification of Registration form, Translation of Form no. 27 in Punjabi for convenience of construction workers. He said that if any objection is imposed on the application of a worker, SMS is sent regarding the same to the construction worker and now Labour Inspectors will have to process the registration/renewal application within 14 days of receiving the application.
