The Minister of Finance of the Union, Nirmala Sitharaman, has announced that concert workers would be eligible for medical care facilities under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan scheme Jan Aregya Yojana (PMJAY) and would benefit from almost a crore of them.
“The workers of the online concert platforms provide great dynamism to the service economy of the new era. Recognizing its contribution, our government will organize its identity cards and registration on the E-Shram portal. They will be provided with medical care under Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana, ”Sitharaman said in his budget speech. Therefore, it is on the basis of your registration and a UAN (universal account number) that can take advantage of the facilities.
Jan Arogya Yojana offers a cover of RS 5 Lakh per family of beneficiaries per year for hospitalization of secondary and tertiary care in public and private packaging hospitals in India. However, details about whether the families of the concert workers will be covered or should not be provided.
Who are the concert workers?
Concert workers participate in income income activities outside the standard employer-employer’s employer. Then they are in the informal sector. The most common examples of concert workers include platforms based on platforms where workers earn money by providing specific services, including food delivery services such as zomato, swiggy or electronic commerce platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart.
Does this help in universal health coverage?
Dr. Ks Reddy, a distinguished professor of the Public Health Foundation of India, feels that the commitment to universal health coverage begins with the most vulnerable section. PMJAY has identified many sections such as elderly workers, Asha and Anganwadi. “At least people in formal employment are covered by occupational health insurance plans. Therefore, it is important that concert workers that are vulnerable to several health problems, particularly because they work in stressful conditions and, often, enough extreme climatic conditions. It is a part and plot of extending the scope of universal health coverage that is in a state of evolution, but adding a more always section is useful to provide coverage, ”he said.
From the nature of a The use of the concert worker is temporaryFeel that it is important to provide these people with some degree of insurance.
What are the challenges to implement the cover?
Shaik Salauddin, National Secretary of the Federation of Transportation Transportation Based on Applications (IFAT), says that these schemes are completely effective, aggregating companies must share data on concerts and platform workers with the government. Without mandatory data exchange with the E-Shram portal, many workers will not be able to access these benefits. “The government of India must guarantee a strict implementation and responsibility, so it is mandatory for all platform companies to register workers and contribute to social security schemes. It is necessary to guarantee the contributions of aggregate companies towards social security schemes for concert and platform workers, ”he said.
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He said it is more important to strengthen the integration of the E-ShRAM registration for concert workers and platforms with existing well-being schemes. Registration alone will not be enough to ensure that concert workers can access the complete benefits of these initiatives.
According to Santosh Kumar, a member of the Union of Teangana Gig and Platform workers (TGPWU), the Social Security Code allows the formulation of schemes that cover the coverage of life and disability, accidental insurance, health benefits and maternity benefits and background protection For concert and platform workers. “However, despite a five -year struggle, workers continue to expect a National Integral Law, a dedicated Welfare Board and the complete implementation of these measures,” he said.
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