21.02 lakh unorganised workers registered so far
The Hindu
Portal is open to workers engaged in sector and aged between 16 and 59
Since its launch on August 26, the government’s registered 21 lakh unorganised sector workers as of Tuesday, according to data on the Labour and Employment Ministry’s portal. Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav told The Hindu that the progress had been satisfactory and the Ministry would boost the capacities of the portal. Mr. Yadav said he, along with the Minister of State, would visit the 20 deputy chief labour commissioner offices in the country to interact with the stakeholders and seek feedbacks about the portal in the next four months. All Central trade unions had supported the launch of the portal, he noted. An official of the Ministry said 21.02 lakh workers had been registered as of Tuesday. According to the Ministry’s statement at the time of the launch, the portal would lead to the creation of a national database of unorganised workers. Apart from being Aadhaar-linked, it collected details of the name, occupation, address, educational qualification, skill types and family of the registered workers.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.