Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour & Employment, Shri Bandaru Dat-tatreya, launched the new initiatives on Shram Suvidha Portal on 9th March 2016 at New Delhi. The portal’s objectives include integration of Annual Return under Mines Act, Monthly EPFO/ESIC Common Return, upgraded inspection system and multilingual fea-ture besides the common registration facility on the e-Biz platform. Ministry of Labour & Employment has taken an initiative for development of Shram Suvidha Portal to facilitate re-porting of inspections, submission of returns etc. This uni-fied portal has been envisaged as a single point of contact between employer, employee and enforcement agencies bringing in transparency in their day-to-day interactions and also to avoid the duplicity information being collated by multiple enforcement agencies for enforcement of La-bour Laws. Speaking on the occasion, Hon’ble Minister said that the In-spection System for various Labour Acts has been upgrad-ed with a provision for objections and clarifications on the uploaded inspection reports. This will help all concerned in taking a holistic view on the report without wasting time. Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary (L&E) said that for the benefit of common man, Shram Suvidha Portal has been made multilingual providing information in eleven Indian languages viz. Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Shri Manish Gupta, Joint Secretary outlined the future initiatives for next financial year.