#30 India's Social Registry of Informal Workers

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Dec 2, 202200:29:16Government & Organizations

In India, the government has set a huge undertaking: to register 380 million informal workers on a new database, so that it could allow the delivery of social security payments. This database, called e-Shram, was launche...

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