Modi to launch smart card for 40 cr unorganised workers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon launch a smart card scheme for over 40 crore unorganised workers in the country to provide them various social security benefits like insurance and pension. Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said this at launch of Global Network Operations Centre of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation in New Delhi yesterday. He said within one month Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch smart card called Unorganised Workers'



Identification Number (UWIN) card.

The Minister said that through the UWIN card, the Government wants to provide social security to all those people who are not covered either by Employees' Provident Fund Organisation or Employees' State Insurance Corporation. Mr Dattatreya said that the entire task of issuing smart cards to all informal sector workers would take at least two years time. He said government will issue 10 crore such cards in the first phase.