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For the first time since being carved out of Bihar 15 years ago, Jharkhand is embarking on an ambitious voluntary registration scheme to track lakhs of men, women and children who leave the state every year in search of jobs. To make the scheme attractive and to ensure the migrating workers enrolled themselves voluntarily, the state labour department has proposed an insurance cover of Rs 1.50 lakhs for each registered worker, the sum assured to be paid to his/her the next of kin in the event of death or disability. Elaborating on the insurance incentive, the State Labour Secretary Rahul Sharma said that in addition to providing the facility to registered workers, it would also be extended to unregistered migrating workers, though with a lower coverage. He also indicated that the state would propose passing the insurance scheme for unregistered migrating labourers, though with a reduced cover of Rs 75,000. The registration procedure would be via a simple registration form that would take a few minutes to fill. Apart from basic details, a worker would have to disclose the nature and place of his employment. Sharma said since a number of placement agencies based in Delhi took the help of local agents to source workers who include men, women and children, the state would make it mandatory for these agencies to register themselves with the labour department. "Compulsory registration of all placement agencies would also go a long way in protecting the rights of migrating labourers. This would help us track the workforce, too," the labour secretary said, adding that the idea was to develop an authentic data bank of migrating workers, identify districts more prone to such migration and implement employment generating schemes to combat the trend. A large chunk of people, estimated to be between 3 lakh and 5 lakh, flock to the brick kilns and construction sites of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and some of the southern states for six months beginning in October each year only to return to their villages in June before the first monsoon rains to tend to their fields. Over the past several years, driven by the spurt in demand for young and minor girls in the metros, particularly Delhi, NCR,Haryana, Mumbai and Hyderabad, hundreds of girls from Gumla, Simdega, Lohardaga, Khunti, Ranchi, Pakur and Sahebganj districts were suspected to have been lured by agents to work as domestic helps in affluent homes. Sanjay Kumar Mishra, member, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, stressed that over three lakh women, mostly young girls, have been lured by agents and taken away to the cities to work as domestic workers.
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Jharkhand, workforce, registration, insurance, government scheme, migration, women, trafficking, incentives, agency, data bank, employment generation, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, brick kiln, construction
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