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Gig Workers' Welfare Board with Rs 3,000 crore seed fund

Indian National Congress · Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2023

Last updated 20 Jun 2026

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Implementation is progressing towards the commitment.

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Original manifesto wording

“To establish a Gig Workers Welfare Board with allotment of Rs.3,000 Crs as seed money for revolving fund.”

From the Indian National Congress manifestoView Manifestop.22

Our Assessment

On track. The government enacted a platform-based gig workers' law - via the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance 2025 (Governor’s assent May 2025), later put on a statutory footing - establishing a Welfare Board and a Welfare Fund and levying a per-transaction welfare cess on aggregators such as Swiggy, Zomato, Ola and Uber. The board (the core promise) is established; the funding model is a cess rather than the promised Rs 3,000 crore state seed grant, and operationalisation (registration, cess collection, benefit disbursal) is ramping up.