Summary of key issues in accessing schemes
Key Issues in Accessing Schemes:
- Limited Awareness: Workers lack awareness of available schemes.
- Document Challenges: Issues with supporting documents, including Aadhaar card discrepancies, name/age mismatches, absence of bank passbooks, and challenges in Aadhaar seeding for bank accounts.
- Resource Constraints: Lack of personal smartphones or having to share them, coupled with difficulties in remembering login details.
- Job Profile Exclusion: Certain construction job profiles, like gardeners and parking area employees, are not covered.
- Trust Concerns: Some CSOs charging fees, hesitancy in sharing documents, and reservations about using cyber cafes affect trust.
- Systemic Problems: The Seva Sindhu portal experiences intermittent slowdowns, and there are limitations on document upload size, often restricted to around 2 megabytes.
Additionally,
- Health and Entitlements: Basic health, accident, and other entitlements under the jurisdiction of the labor department.
- Pensions Challenges: Issues such as pensions of all kinds are dealt with by the Revenue Department and more difficult to deal with.
- Limitations for Out-of-State Individuals: Challenges for individuals from other states in accessing schemes, even under the Labor card, with restricted entitlements.
- Non-Caste-Based Labor Schemes: The Labor department's schemes are not based on caste.
- SC/ST Community Schemes: Schemes for SC/ST communities managed by the SC/ST Corporation, primarily for locals, leading to challenges for SC/ST migrants.
- Dual Card Possibilities: Potential benefits for individuals with both SC and labor cards.
- Scholarship Documentation Challenges: Tight timelines and documentation challenges for scholarships requiring income and caste certificates. While income certificates are valid for 5 years, caste certificates remain valid for life. However, individuals often discover their expired income certificates when applying for scholarships, resulting in missed deadlines.