'70,000 gig workers registered on eShram'

With onboarding of ten major e-commerce players, including Uber, Zomato, and Blinkit, more than 70,000 gig workers have registered with eShram portal to avail several social security benefits, a parliamentary panel has observed.

Noting that nearly 35 lakh workers will be eligible to register for eShram in 2025-26, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour has suggested to identify aggregators and onboard them on the portal expediently to provide social security and healthcare benefits to gig workers. The panel noted that as of February 19 this year, 70,306 platform workers of 36 states/UTs have been registered with eShram.

Ten major e-commerce platforms, including Zomato, Blinkit, Uncle Delivery, Urban Company, Swiggy, Uber, Rapido, Ola, Zepto & Ecom Express have been onboarded on e-Shram.