e-Shram Portal – National Database of Unorganised Workers – Economic Survey 2025-26 MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

e-Shram was created by the Ministry of Labour and Employment as the Aadhaar-seeded National Database of Unorganised Workers. Registration on self-declaration gives a worker a permanent 12-digit Universal Account Number, enabling portable identity and access to linked welfare services; it is not an automatic cash-transfer scheme.

The restriction in option D is false. e-Shram uses several channels: self-registration through the web portal and mobile application, assisted registration through Common Service Centres and State Sewa Kendras, and access through UMANG. It is therefore not confined to a worker’s district labour office.

All three statements reproduce explicit official milestones. The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched e-Shram on 26 August 2021; self-declaration registration provides a permanent 12-digit Universal Account Number; and the integrated One-Stop Solution began on 21 October 2024. Hence 1, 2 and 3 are all correct.

The Economic Survey 2025-26 explicitly records more than 31 crore unorganised workers on e-Shram by January 2026 and states that women constituted about 54% of registrants. Therefore, option C preserves both the reported total and the gender-share figure; every other pair changes at least one value.

The portal was launched on 26 August 2021. The One-Stop Solution followed on 21 October 2024, multilingual access through Bhashini began on 7 January 2025, and the relevant labour-code provisions took effect on 21 November 2025. Thus the only valid chronological sequence is 2-3-1-4.