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with evidence-based policy design. Secondly, compliance for establishments and tracking of and Renewal under different Acts, Licence
information once provided to the department labour entitlements. Auto renewal of licences and Renewal of licences under different Acts,
did not need to be provided again, meaning would happen on furnishing of annual returns License for contractors, Approval of plan and
the department would collect far lesser and online payment of licence fee. permissions.
information from labourers at the time of
scheme applications. Thirdly, the reach and You were talking about Scheme Redesign You have also done process reengineering for
availability of the Labour Department portal based on analytics platform. Would you different processes.
was greatly expanded via the agnostic mobile elaborate on this please? Reengineering governance processes, under
application. Next, the new database created As of now there are 68 schemes under which Unified Registrations & Licences for all Acts,
by the department automatically prevented workers can avail benefits. All these schemes Rules and Boards, we have reduced eight
duplicate entries. Fifth, the department was have been made online. However, there are existing forms to just one form. Towards
able to streamline its efforts to ensure that all various problems that plagued the system. developing system for ease of compliance
unregistered labourers were now registered. Firstly, the workers need to be aware about for establishments and tracking of labour
By analysing the number of unregistered all schemes and benefits available to them. entitlements, existing 91 registers have been
labourers in each district, we were able to set Secondly, a lot of the schemes were designed reduced to two registers only. Centralised
specific targets and mobilise our district teams many years ago – there was no guarantee that online system to track workers health and
to carry out this work. the benefits provided under these schemes ensure assistance to the workers is being
addressed the current needs and problems developed. This will track accidents to
May I request you to throw some light on the of the workers. Thirdly, the application ensure receipt of workers entitlements and
special migration module developed.
process under the schemes (specifically the compensation. Finally, an Online Grievance
Yes, the questionnaire was created specifically documentary requirements) were complicated, Redressal system is being developed
to help register and track the movements of and workers often got stuck at this stage. which would facilitate Choice centres to fill
migrant workers into and out of the state. application form on behalf of workers. Labour
The Labour Department tied up with the So, to address the above issues, we decided to Inspectors can approve this from their panel.
Department of Rural Development (Panchayat analyse the data available to us. Based on a
Sachivs) and the Department of Urban five years trend and time series analysis of the We are grateful to you for sharing your vision
Affairs and Development (Ward Moharrirs) to with us. Before concluding would you like to
maintain a live, updatable register of migrant share any important point you have in mind.
workers. This database was synced to the 35 35 I would like to thank Dr. AK Hota, DDG & SIO,
larger registration database to once again 30 Chhattisgarh, Shri Satyesh Kumar Sharma, TD
ensure that information that was already and HoD, Shri Saurabh Dubey, Scientist-C, Smt.
with the department was not collected unless 25 Jyoti Sharma, Scientist-B and their team, Shri
necessarily. Through this system, Chhattisgarh 21 SS Painkara, Dy. Labour Commissioner, Labour
will be able to track migration trends, and work 20 Department for taking the initiatives ahead.
with the destination states to ensure that its 15
labourers continue to receive scheme benefits 12 I have a vision to develop Enterprises
even while migrating. 10 Architecture (EA) in the Labour Domain. You see,
several stakeholders like Health, Education,
With increase in number of workers your 5 Urban Development, Tribal development,
targeted beneficiary will be more and for that 0 Industry, ESIC and EPFO need to be integrated
you would require more budgetary support. LWB CGBoCWWB UWWB to track the establishment registration,
How do you look at that aspect? entitlement tracking and automated benefit
68 Schemes covered under various Boards disbursal. Enterprise architecture (EA), so
You may be aware that the main source
of budgetary provision comes as cess beneficiaries and the data, we are now focused developed, can proactively and holistically
from establishment and factories. The on designing four schemes - Death and lead enterprise responses to disruptive forces
cess collection from Building and other Disability, Maternity Benefits, Severe Illnesses by identifying and analysing the execution of
Construction Workers Welfare Board - BoCWB change towards desired vision and outcomes.
is around 150 crore now. There is lack of system and Scholarships. Finally, we are also working I would like to request NIC to extend support
for calculation or assessment of cess. We are on moving towards a system of automated towards this.
now targeting to increase the cess collection entitlement tracking and benefits disbursal. Chhattisgarh is being among the first few states
to 450 crore. For this we also need to increase Under this system, the Labour Department across the country to adopt such eGovernance
the registration of establishments. There are will tie up with other state departments to application in labour domain is certainly a
different registration systems for different kind proactively track important life events / positive message for the government and
of establishments and factories under different triggers such as birth, education, pregnancy, citizen. Thanks a lot Sir.
Acts, Rules and Boards leading to loopholes in injury and death, and automatically provide
the registration system. We are targeting to benefits to labourers when any such trigger
increase establishment registration under LWB event takes place.
to increase from 6420 to 15,000.
That’s a great idea. Under your leadership
What are the steps being taken towards this? Labour department of Chhattisgarh has
achieved 100% reforms under Ease of Doing Interviewed by
We are developing Unified registration and Business.
licensing system with support of NIC for
all establishments / factories across new Yes, under comprehensive Ease of Doing
labour codes. Integrated systems will avoid Business there are 102 reform points. All points Satyesh Kr. Sharma
data mismatches and reduce harassment have been complied. It covers Single Online Technical Director
and duplication. Unified Annual Returns is Window System, Labour Regulation Enablers, satyesh@nic.in
being planned to monitor compliance and Inspection Reform Enablers, Compliance
auto renewals. This will facilitate ease of Inspections under different Acts, Registration

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