Labour Ministry to issue UWIN cards to informal workers from April

The ministry has already initiated a pilot on the UWIN Cards to test the efficacy of the system

The labour ministry will begin a drive in April to register around 470 million unorganised sector workers and provide them a card, Unorganised Worker Index Number, bringing them under the social security net, an official source said.

The ministry wants to complete the exercise by the end of the next fiscal year, before the polls in 2019, so that these workers are covered under the social security code it proposes.

“The ministry will begin registering the unorganised workers across the country by the beginning of the next fiscal year to provide them benefits of various social security schemes run by retirement fund