Why it is news?
- Ten years after passing a law that envisaged a portable smart ID card for unorganised workers, the Centre has started work to create a national database and Aadhaar-seeded identification number system to facilitate welfare delivery to 40 crore workers in the sector.
- The Union Ministry of Labour has called for tenders to design, develop and run the new UWIN ”” Unorganised Workers Identification Number ”” Platform.
- The Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008 had first mandated that every worker be registered and issued a smart ID card.
- According to the notice, the single unified sanitised database will assign a 10-digit UWIN to every worker and include details of both nuclear and extended families of unorganised workers.
- The platform will be set up within six months of the contract being signed, and a third of theworkers are expected to be registered in the first year, with the remainder to be registered in the second year.
- While the Centre ”” through the service provider ”” will create and maintain the platform, it is up to the States to identify and register unorganised workers