Summary of key issues in accessing schemes

Key Issues in Accessing Schemes:

1. Limited Awareness: Workers lack awareness of available schemes.
2. Document ChallengesChallenges:: Issues with supporting documents, including Aadhaar card discrepancies, name/age mismatches, absence of bank passbooks, and challenges in Aadhaar seeding for bank accounts.
   
3. Resource Constraints:  Lack of personal smartphones or having to share them, coupled with difficulties in remembering login details.
   
4. Job Profile Exclusion: Certain construction job profiles, like gardeners and parking area employees, are not covered.
   
5. Trust Concerns:  Some CSOs charging fees, hesitancy in sharing documents, and reservations about using cyber cafes affect trust.
   
6. Systemic Problems: The Seva Sindhu portal experiences intermittent slowdowns, and there are limitations on document upload size, often restricted to around 2 megabytes.

Additionally,

1. Health and Entitlements: Basic health, accident, and other entitlements under the jurisdiction of the labor department.
   
2. Pensions Challenges: Issues such as pensions of all kinds are dealt with by the Revenue Department and more difficult to deal with.
   
3. Limitations for Out-of-State Individuals: Challenges for individuals from other states in accessing schemes, even under the Labor card, with restricted entitlements.
4. Non-Caste-Based Labor Schemes: The Labor department's schemes are not based on caste.
5. 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.
6. Dual Card Possibilities: Potential benefits for individuals with both SC and labor cards.
7. 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.