Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Sharamjeevi Mahila Samiti Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 21/08/2018 regarding registration of unorganised workers in India.

The SC was informed that the Ministry of Labour and Employment is involved in the process of finalizing a registration module for unorganized workers and after the security audit it would be made ready by the end of December, 2018. Thereafter, it would be made available to the States/Union Territories for further process of registration and issuance of paper identity cards.

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The apex court directed the Chief Secretary of all the states and Administrators of all the Union Territories to start registering 10% of the estimated number of workers every month starting from the month of January, 2019 and submit a Report to the SC by January 31, 2019.