<span style="color: #222222;">Indian Railways has ensured cent per cent compliance of payment of minimum wages to contract workers through e-application Shramik Kalyan Portal. The ministry said the move will benefit daily wage earners.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Till March 9th over 3495 crore rupees wage amount and about six crores man-days registered on this portal across Indian Railways. A total of 15,812 contractors and 3,81,831 contract workers also registered on this portal . </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">All PSUs working under Ministry of Railways are also using this e-application. This e-application helps Railways to keep vigil over wages disbursed by contractors to contract workers.  Indian Railway Shramik Kalyan e-application has been developed and launched on 1st October  2018. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">E-Application ensures the compliance of provisions of Minimum Wages Act and also ensures that contractual workers working in Indian Railways get their rightful due by enforcing the contractors to regularly upload wage payment data into e-application.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Provision is also available in the e-application to generate ID of the contract worker and also to send SMSs from time to time about wages paid to him and contribution made to EPF and ESIC.</span>