The government is likely to roll out the national social security card scheme in the budget for 2016-17 on February 29, allowing the beneficiaries to avail themselves the benefits of half dozen social security schemes under one platform. This exercise is likely to kick off with the unorganized sector workers, leveraging the Aadhaar platform and Jan Dhan accounts. The initiative is expected to help the government strengthen its commitment to the workers.
For this fiscal, the labour ministry has moved a proposal of Rs 1,350 crore to register and issue national social security card to workers in the unorganised sector. The ministry is supposed to have finalised the design, software and guidelines to issue these smart cards and once the proposal is approved it will kick start the exercise of registering the beneficiaries and eventually issuing them a single smart card. The portable smart card is expected to contain details of bank account, mobile number and benefits of social security schemes that the workers can avail themselves of.
About 40 crore unorganised workers in the country, accounting for nearly 89% of the total workforce, could benefit from the single digital card that will fetch them monetary benefits under schemes including the Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, the Atal Pension Yojana, the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, besides the oldage pension schemes.
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