1. Protecting the Vulnerable:
Providing social welfare to informal
sector workers
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Maurya
Shreya shetty
Ranjitha G
Sumaiya Samreen
Vivek Gowda
AIT, Chikmagalur

2. More than 90% of India’s workforce belongs to the informal
sector and accounts for 50% of the national product. 99.9%
workers in the agriculture and forestry sectors are
unorganized. 98% of unorganized industrial labour does not
have any social security protection [1].
Informal labour can be viewed in different ways among which
we are concentrating on three views of informal sector workers:
 Vulnerable people who lost every thing due to natural
disasters [2].
Older age people (above 60 years) [3].
 People who comes under Below Poverty Line (BPL) , not able
to start any business in his/her own [4].
PROBLEMS & REASONS
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3. SOLUTION
Whenever there is natural disaster, people loose every
thing that they earned in their life especially poor people
and becomes vulnerable without any aid to recover their
status.
In such case government must provide aid to them by
using our proposed method for helping vulnerable. The
principle behind this is collecting money in terms of
current bill.
The proposed solution can be repeated for more than
one month then any range of amount can be collected and
this can be used for providing aid for old people, People
under BPL to start their own business with strong
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4. Let amount be collected is 10Rs per month per home.
This 10 Rs. is added to their monthly current bill
which will not be a burden for even BPL family per
month.
In total if there are (approximately) 20 crores
buildings in entire India who use current. Then the
amount collected will be
20 crore * 10 Rs. = 200 crores per month.
If this amount is not sufficient, this procedure must be
repeated for another month.
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5. Novel Method for money collection
for providing aid
Electric Distribution Companies
give bill for used current + 10 Rs.
Companies collect bill and
additional amount must be
deposited to Government
specified bank
Reporting to Government by
Bank
Distribution System
(see next slide)
Survey on number of
buildings
New
buildings
Add entry
Verification
Collected amont must
nearly match with
10*number of buildings
based on survey
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6. Novel Method for aid distribution to
informal sector workers
Identify the type of
informal sector workers
Natural
disasters
Registered
Older
people
pension
People under
BPL
Providing aid
based on
severity of
cause
Through postal
department
monthly
Mobile
confirmation
by receiver
Registration Verifica
tion of
income/
status
Government
consultancy for
providing
suggestions on
new small
business and for
financial aid to
them
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7. Challenges !!!!!!!!!!!
Proper survey of buildings must be made , it
involves the difficult procedure as census.
Account maintenance of each company will be
the big problem.
Distributed money must reach the informal sector
workers properly.
The maintenance of mobile number database
becomes the big issue which is used for aid receiver
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References
[1] Expert Group on Informal Sector Statistics (Delhi Group)”
Informal Sector in the Indian System of National Accounts, 2006.
[2] The unorganised sector in India,
fedina.org/777/2011/10/UNORGANISED-SECTOR-IN-
INDIA1.doc
[3] www.epw.in/review-labour/unorganised-sector-workforce-
india.html
[4] Informal Sector in India: Contribution, Growth and Efficiency
www.iariw.org/papers/2009/8a%20Bairagya.pdf