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The Ministry of Labour and Employment highlights the progress of key employment and welfare schemes including e-Shram, Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana, National Career Service, PM-SVANidhi, National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme, and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The report outlines achievements, registration numbers, financial disbursements, and job creation statistics across sectors from the respective launch dates up to early 2025.
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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Posted On: 01 FEB 2025 2:32PM by PIB Delhi
India has seen significant employment growth, with a 36% increase and around 170 million jobs added between 2016-17 and 2023-24. This reflects the country’s strong economic trajectory and job creation across various sectors. Schemes like e-Shram, Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana and the National Career Service have been key drivers, supporting rural employment and providing training and career opportunities. These initiatives are essential for strengthening India’s workforce and ensuring sustainable job creation.
Launch: 21st October, 2024
Objective: The eShram portal, was launched on 26 August 2021 to register and support unorganised workers by providing them with a Universal Account Number (UAN) and for the creation of a comprehensive National Database of Unorganised Workers (NDUW).
eShram– “One-Stop-Solution” was launched on 21st October 2024, which entails the integration of different social security/ welfare schemes on a single portal, i.e., eShram. This enables unorganised workers registered on eShram to access social security schemes and see benefits availed by them so far through eShram.
Launch: 1^st^ October, 2020
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Objective: To incentivize employers for creation of new employment and restoration of loss of employment during Covid-19 pandemic.
Launch Date: 20th July, 2015.
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Objective: NCS has become a ‘one stop platform’ for career related services including jobs from private and government sectors, information on online & offline job fairs, skill/training programmes etc. It works towards bridging the gap between jobseekers and employers, candidates seeking training and career guidance, agencies providing training and career counselling.
Launch: 1^st^ June, 2020
Objective: To facilitate collateral free working capital loan to street vendors to restart their businesses, which were adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Launch Date: August, 2016
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Objective: Aims to promote apprenticeship training in the country by providing stipend support to the apprentices, undertake capacity building of the apprenticeship ecosystem and provide advocacy assistance to support rapid growth.
Launch: 2005
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Objective: It is a demand driven wage employment Scheme which provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
In addition to these efforts the government has implemented various initiatives for employment welfare, including the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme and support for Gig and Platform Workers all aimed at further enhancing job security and opportunities for the workforce.
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