About the e-Shram portal, Pednekar said that it already has the database of aggregators and “we can understand, on a real-time basis, the benefits which the worker can or has availed”. The Central government is consulting fund managers to bring social security schemes for gig workers, a labour ministry official said on Friday, about a month after several parts of north India witnessed protests demanding a minimum wage while citing rapidly rising cost of living. “A huge part of our workforce is now getting absorbed in the gig and platform economy, and the potential is immense. Today, around 1 crore workers are employed in this sector, and the potential is to reach around 2.5 crore workers by the end of the decade. The government is focusing more towards this sector,” Ashutosh AT Pednekar, Joint Secretary and Director General (Labour Welfare), said. He said that the government is in the process of operationalising various social security schemes related to accident and maternity for platform workers.…