• Union Minister for Labour & Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Session of 110^th International Labour Conference (ILC) of ILO at Geneva.

• India has in recent years, introduced technology and simplified systems with the objectives that each worker enjoys dignity and choice of employment with social security.
• Our Government is providing a unique Universal Account Number to each worker whether in formal or in informal sector to act as a portable identity for continued enjoyment of rights at work.
• Indian Parliament has recently passed four labour Codes subsuming 29 Central Labour laws which has modernized and simplified the labour laws which have taken into account the future of work and issues of informal sector workers.
• A digital portal in August 2021 was launched to register such workers with the intention to develop a national database. 
• About 280 million workers’ database has already been created with more than 400 occupations of workers.
•   The database would lead to better dissemination of social welfare schemes for informal workers.

• During Covid-19, India not only provided free vaccination to its entire population, but also extended free delivery of food and food-grains, health services and assured employment. 
• Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme, about 72 million households availed work under the scheme from April, 2020 to March, 2021 alone.
• During this period, a new Scheme was started to incentivise employers to create new jobs and to re-employ those who lost their jobs during pandemic period by paying from the budget shares of both employees’ and employers’ at the rate of 12% of wages.
• In the same period, cash transfers were made directly to bank accounts of 200 million women during Covid-19 pandemic period.

About 3.2 million street vendors were provided collateral free loans to help them resume their businesses under Swanidhi Scheme.