Thank You, Shri Bhupender Yadavji

( Minister for Labour & employment / bhupender.yadav@sansad.nic.in / minoffice-mole@nic.in )

What For ?

For implementing my suggestion in e-shram portal

What suggestion ?

On 30 Aug. I sent following e-mail :

e-Shram : - also a Deep Database ? , where I suggested :

“ To create awareness among these visitors, I suggest that :

# On the home page itself, introduce a section ( link ) titled : STATISTICS

# Without any login requirement, any stray visitor should be able to visit this

section and be able to VIEW following statistics “

What precisely did you suggest ?

Any visitor clicking on the STATISTICS link, should get to view following tabulation :

STATISTICAL PRE-VIEW OF DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILES OF UNORGANIZED WORKERS REGISTERED

PROFILE	No Registered on ( Yesterday Date )	Cumulative Number Registered
Age-wise
Ø 16 – 30 years
Ø 31 – 40
Ø 41 – 50
Ø 51 - 59
Gendre-wise
Ø Male
Ø Female
State-wise
Ø Names of States
City-wise
Ø Names of Cities
Marital Status
Ø Bachelor
Ø Married
Ø Widowed
Sector ( How Many ? )
Ø Agriculture
Ø Automobile
Ø Construction..etc
Social Category(What-How Many?)
Status
Ø Migrant
Ø Non-Migrant
Staying at Current Location
Ø Year-Slabs( How many ? )
Monthly Income
Ø Slab wise ( 5 slabs wise )
Educational Qualifications
Ø 15 listed quali.-wise
Primary Occupation
Ø Which ? How Many ?
Secondary Occupation
Ø Which ? How Many ?
How did you acquire Skills ?
Ø Hereditary
Ø Self learning
Ø Learning on job
Ø Other
Ø Recd formal Voc/Tech Trg
Ø Did not receive

NOTES :

# Notations above refer to “ drop-lists “ which I could not access. Only a worker

actually undertaking the Registration Process, would see these

# I strongly urge that these “ drop-lists “ are shown upfront ( on home page )

for everyone to see

# Upfront displaying of the tabulation shown above, will enable everyone to

gauge the progress of registration ( vis-à-vis target of 38 crore )

# In past 4 days ( 26 Aug – 30 Aug ), average registration is around 2 LAKH /

DAY

# At this rate, it might take 60 months ( 5 years ) to get all 38 crore to

register

# This will ( likely ) delay the introduction of future Social Benefit schemes

# Detailed STATISTICAL PROFILES ( as shown above ) will invite many useful

suggestions from all stakeholders

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On E-Shram portal, how are suggested “ Demographic Profiles “ being displayed ?

As suggested, a new link called DASHBOARD has been introduced on the home page

Dashboard displays following profiles :

( A ) As “ Line Graphs “ :

# Registrations Completed / Registrations by CSC

# No of CSC centers doing registration daily

( B ) As “ Pie Charts “ :

# Registration by Gender ………… ( Male / Female / Others )

# Age-wise registrations………………( 16 – 25 / 25 – 40 / 40 – 50 / > 50 )

# Mode of Registrations ……………..( through CSC / Self )

# Aadhar-linked Bank Accounts…. ( Yes / No )

# Migrant Workers………………………. ( Yes / No )

# Nominee Details ……………………….( Yes / No )

# Top five States ………………………….( Odisha – Bihar - W.Bengal - UP – MP )

# Top five Occupation Sectors……..( Agriculture – Constr – Others –

Domestic/Household – Apparel )

( C ) As “ Tables “ :

# State-wise ……….. …………………. ( CSC registrations – Self registrations –

Total Registrations )

# “ Occupation Sector “ wise …….( 30 Occupation Sectors listed )

# State-wise no. of CSC centers..( 35 States + UT )

( D ) Options for Search :

# Select no registered for any given State ( or entire country )

# Select no registered as per MODE ( thru CSC / Self / All )

# Filter results by : From a given date > To a given date

( E ) Are any Profiles left out ?

Yes

From my tabulation above, following profiles seem to be missing in the

DASHBOARD ( although relevant data is being captured in the Registration

Form ) :

# City-wise registration

# Marital Status wise

# Social Category-wise ( ? )

# Monthly Income wise

# Educational Qualification wise

# Primary / Secondary Occupation wise

# “ How Skill was acquired “ wise

I I suppose, E-Shram portal design team is working on these and these ANALYSIS will get displayed soon

In the meantime, my hearty CONGRATULATIONS to the team for carrying out a superb job !

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How will these BIG DATA ANALYTICS help ?

In my e-mail ( 30 Aug ) , I wrote :

Ø Design future social benefit schemes for 38 crore workers ( from Unorganized Sector ) . And, may be, even modify some of the existing schemes

Ø It seems, government may want to introduce, not just one or two schemes covering ALL the registered workers but possibly several schemes, each finely targeting several “ sub-groups “ of these 38 crore workers

Ø When these data start getting displayed ( dynamically ? ), it would provide the visitors with very useful information

Ø Many of these visitors, may not be unorganized workers themselves, but could be academicians / social scientists / statisticians / educationists / bureaucrats from various Ministries / trade union leaders / policy makers / scheme administrators etc

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 02 Oct 2021 ( Gandhi Jayanti )

Ø e-ShramCard : Will it be an Easy Card ?................... ( 25 Aug 2021 )

Ø e-Shram can provide jobs to Unorganized Workers ? ..( 26 Aug 2021 )

Ø e-Shram : - also a Deep Database ? …………………………….( 30 Aug 2021 )

Ø A Portal that is Popular…………………………………………………. ( 22 Sept 2021 )

27 Sept 2021

Extract :

“Registration is necessary so that we know how many workers are there in each trade. More than 400 trades have already been represented on the portal.

We want everyone to register so that every worker, including those who perform a very small job, is able to avail the benefits of government schemes. Moreover, those who register on the portal are eligible to get insurance up to ₹2 lakh,” Union labour minister Bhupender Yadav said.

“There has been week-on-week improvement in the percentage of the female workforce registering themselves on the e-Shram portal. The share of women workers drastically improved from around 37% in the first week to almost 50% in the latest week,” he added.

Labour Survey rejig to measure women participation better / Eco Times / 27 Sept 2021

Extract :

Ø The 28 member standing committee on ECONOMIC STATISTICS, constituted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation ( Mospi ) in Jan 2020, is deliberating REVAMP of the questionnaire used for the Periodic Labour Force Survey

Ø There is a view that PLFS has certain MEASUREMENT ISSUES, with Female Participation Rate. This can be addressed by TWEAKING the QUESTIONNAIRE to make it more comprehensive and focussing on a reduced recall period of ONE WEEK , instead of a YEAR

Ø The periodic Labour Force Survey by MOSPI had estimated Female Labour force participation rate in India at ,

# 2017 – 18 ……….. 17.5 %

# 2018 – 19……………18.6 %

# 2019 – 20…………. 22.8 %

My take :

Dear Shri Rao Inderjit Singhji

( Minister for MOSPI / minister.spi@nic.in ),

You might want to join hands with e-Shram portal and evolve a COMMON questionnaire for PLFS

CC :

Shri Bhupender Yadav ( Min of Labour & Employment / bhupender.yadav@sansad.nic.in / minoffice-mole@nic.in )

Shri Rameshwar Teli ( Min of State – Labour / rameshwar.teli@sansad.nic.in )

Shri Sunil Barthwal ( Secretary – L&E / secy-labour@nic.in )

Friday 1 October 2021