RAS question
The e-Shram portal, India's national database for unorganised workers, crossed how many registrations as of December 2025?
Correct answer: (C) 31.42 crore.
The e-Shram portal crossed 31.42 crore unorganised-worker registrations by 22 December 2025.
Explanation
The relevant figure is 31.42 crore, not a rounded lower or higher estimate. PIB's Year End Review 2025 for the Ministry of Labour and Employment says the e-Shram portal had completed registration of over 31.42 crore unorganised workers on 22 December 2025. This supports option C exactly. The same release explains why the portal matters as a governance tool: it is Aadhaar-seeded, registration is based on self-declaration, and the portal had been integrated with National Career Service, Maandhan, myScheme and Skill India Digital for easier access to services. It also notes the multilingual upgrade through MeitY's Bhashini project, expanding e-Shram from four languages to 22 languages.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 15 crore understates the PIB-reported registration level, which had already crossed 31.42 crore by 22 December 2025.
- (B) 22 crore confuses the language expansion detail of 22 languages with the actual registration count of over 31.42 crore workers.
- (D) 40 crore is above the figure supported by the cited PIB release, which records over 31.42 crore registrations, not 40 crore.
Concept
This tests welfare-governance through digital public infrastructure, especially databases for unorganised workers and service delivery. RAS repeats such facts because labour welfare portals link schemes, inclusion, Aadhaar-seeded records and multilingual access.