Ministry of Labour & Employment Schemes

2019-01-31

Ministry of Labour & Employment Schemes

Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram:

The scheme is launched to provide conducive environment for industrial development.
Various initiatives under the scheme includes –
Shram Suvidha Portal –

Allocation of Unique labour identification number (LIN) to labour to facilitate online registration.
This portal will help timely redressal of grievances.
Single Harmonized Form to make filing complaints simple.
Filing of self-certified and simplified Single Online Return by the industry.
Labour inspector to upload inspection report within 72 hours.

Random Labour Inspection scheme – A computerized list of inspections will be generated randomly to reduce inspector raj. Inspector has to upload report within 72 hours
Universal Account Number (UAN) for Employee Provident Fund (EPF) –

An UAN is allotted to EPF subscribers to make Provident Fund account more portable and universally accessible by centrally compiling & digitizing their information.
The portability of the Social Security Benefits to the labour of organised sector across the jobs and geographic areas will be ensured.

It envisages on imparting on-the-job training to apprentices.
Government will reimburse 50 percent of stipend paid by employers to increase employability of youth by giving them skills.

Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana – Introduction of convergence of social security schemes namely AamAdmiBimaYojna and National Old Age Penskion Scheme on RSBY smart card through improved IT framework.

Portal PENCIL:

Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour is an electronic platform for no child labour developed by the Labour Ministry.
The portal creates a robust implementing and monitoring mechanism for enforcement of the legislative provisions of National Child Labour Policy (NCLP).
Since the subject of labour is in the concurrent list, the enforcement of the policy depends on respective state governments.
This online portal aims to connect the Centre to the state government, district and to all project societies for effective implementation of NCLP.
The portal has a component of child tracking system.

Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana:

It is to promote/incentivize employment generation.
Central Government will be paying the 8.33% EPS contribution of the employer for the new employment.
All industries registered with Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) can apply for availing benefits under the scheme.
It is targeted for employees earning wages less than Rs. 15,000/- per month.
The scheme will be in operation for a period of 3 years and GOI will continue to pay and all new eligible employees will be covered till 2019-20.

National Career Service Project:

It is implemented as a mission mode project to provide a variety of employment related services like career counselling, vocational guidance, information on skill development courses, apprenticeship, internships etc
It has a rich repository of career content of over 3000 occupations.
The NCS project has also been enhanced to interlink all employment exchanges with the NCS Portal so that services can be delivered online.
The scheme provides for part funding to states for IT up gradation and minor refurbishing of employment exchanges and for organizing job fairs.

Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna:

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation under Ministry of Labour and Employment has recently rolled out Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna.
The scheme covers Insured Persons (IP) covered under the Employees‘ State Insurance Act, 1948.
It aims to provide cash relief to unemployed insured person.
The relief will be payable in cash directly to their Bank Account in case of unemployment and while they search for new engagement.