Special drive to register unorganised workers from January 15 to March 15

The Karnataka State Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Board, successful relation with the Labour Department, has launched a peculiar registration thrust to enrol eligible unorganised assemblage workers nether the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme. The thrust volition beryllium conducted from January 15 to March 15, 2026.

A district-level implementation committee has been constituted nether the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner. The registration thrust volition beryllium carried retired successful phases with the enactment of Panchayat Raj institutions, municipality section bodies, and Common Service Centres (CSCs). A people of 9,000 unorganised workers has been fixed for enrolment successful Mysuru district.

Under the scheme, the Union authorities aims to supply fiscal information during aged property by offering a fixed monthly pension of ₹3,000 to unorganised assemblage workers. Workers aged betwixt 18 and 40 are eligible to enrol. Depending connected their age, beneficiaries are required to lend a monthly magnitude ranging from ₹55 to ₹200. An adjacent publication volition beryllium made by the Union government, and the full magnitude volition beryllium deposited into the beneficiary’s slope account. After attaining the property of 60, beneficiaries volition beryllium eligible to person a monthly pension of ₹3,000, according to a property release.

Eligible beneficiaries see home-based workers, thoroughfare vendors, loaders, ceramic kiln workers, leather workers, operation workers, home workers, beedi workers, washermen, autorickshaw drivers, landless labourers, audio and ocular workers, handloom workers, waste-pickers, fishermen, and different unorganised assemblage workers and traders. Interested workers tin registry astatine adjacent CSCs by submitting their Aadhaar card, slope passbook, and the archetypal month’s contribution, labour officials said successful the release.