New Delhi: Indian Railways has ensured 100 per cent compliance of fee of minimal wages to contract workers through e-application Shramik Kalyan Portal, the Ministry of Railways knowledgeable on Thursday. Rs 3,49,590 lakh of wage quantity and about 6 crores man-days had been registered on Indian Railway Shramik Kalyan e-application as on Tuesday, it stated.
A complete of 15,812 contractors and three,81,831 contract workers additionally registered on this portal until Tuesday. Indian Railway Shramik Kalyan e-application has been developed and launched on October 1, 2018.
“E-Application ensures the compliance of provisions of the Minimum Wages Act and also ensures that contractual workers working in Indian Railways get their rightful due by enforcing the contractors to regularly upload wage payment data into e-application. This helps Railways as Principal Employer, to keep vigil over wages disbursed by contractors to contract workers,” learn the discharge.
“As of March 9, a total of 15,812 contractors and a total of 3,81,831 contract workers are registered on this portal. Along with this, a total of 48,312 no. of letter of acceptance (LOA), Rs 3,49, 590 lakhs (More than Rs 3495 crores) wage amount and about 6 crores man-days are also registered on this portal across Indian Railways,” it stated.
The ministry stated all Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) working below the Ministry of Railways are additionally utilizing this e-application.”The Portal enables all the contractors of different units of Railways i.e., divisions, workshops, PUs, PSUs to register themselves on e-application and subsequently add Work Orders issued by different Railway units to them,” stated the discharge.
The contractors have to create a profile of every contract employee engaged by him for the work and replace the wages supplied to him on common foundation.
“There are checks in the portal to ensure that wages paid by the contractors conform to Minimum Wages fixed by the Government of India from time to time. Railways` bill passing authorities, before passing the contractors` bills, have to check whether the contract workers’ wage data have been uploaded by the contractor on e-application or not. For ensuring compliance of the same, necessary changes have also been made in the contract conditions,” stated the Ministry.
“Provision is available in the e-application to generate ID of the contract worker and also to send SMS from time to time about wages paid to him and contribution made to EPF and ESIC,” learn the discharge.
