Four leading aggregators — Urban Company, Zomato, Blinkit and Uncle Delivery — have registered on the e-Shram portal, joining an initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Employment to register themselves and their gig employees for availing social security benefits.
The Ministry had last year rolled out a pilot project for registering platform workers and aggregators on the e-Shram portal, which was also meant to formalise the gig economy. An aggregator module, too, has been piloted, enabling digital platforms to onboard themselves and their workforce on India’s national database for unorganised workers.
The Ministry’s move was also captured in Budget 2025. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech on Saturday, announced that 1 crore gig workers would get access to healthcare under the PM Jan Arogya Yojana.
She also spoke about measures to facilitate their identification through unique identity cards and streamlining their registration on the e-Shram portal.
