1. MANTHAN
THE BIGGEST YOUTH MOVEMENT
TOPIC- PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE :
Providing social welfare to informal sector workers
ARMY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , PUNE
TEAM NAME- FALCONS
TEAM COORDINATOR- ABHAY KUMAR PANDEY
MEMBER - MITHUN K JAMES
ZAIN IQBAL
SANTOSH KUMAR
AYUSH NEGI
“……he is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote by every means in
his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens”
MSPI 2012 report
Informal
sector
formal sector

2. Social welfare is defined as, “a set of public
measures that a society provides for its
members to protect them against economic
and social distress caused by the absence or
a substantial reduction of income from work
as result of various contingencies(sickness,
maternity, employment injury,
unemployment, invalidity, old age or death
of the breadwinner), the provision of
healthcare and the provision of benefits for
families with children.
These measures refer to both statutory
and non-statutory measures, usually taken
in a life cycle perspective, which cover both
contingent and chronic needs.
Major areas of vulnerability identified
as:
i) illness requiring hospitalization,
ii) untimely death of bread winner,
iii)unemployment,
iv) maternity episodes,
v) retirement from work.

3. 1.A large
number of
them are
below
poverty line
Impoverished
2.Working at
low wages
and with no
security.
Unorganized Labour
3.They are
migrant in
nature and
dispersed all
over the
country.
Migrant
4.Poor
literacy level
are making
them more
vulnerable.
Low level of literacy
CHARACTERISTICS OF UNORGANISED LABOUR IN INDIA
“The NSS data from 1999-00,
2004-05 & 2009-10 employment
surveys show that:
(a) the percentage of informal
workers among paid workers in
the non-agricultural sector has
steadily increased.
(b) The percentage of such
workers with access to social
security has declined.
(c) Informalisation has grown
even in the organised sector, and
even in the public sector and in
public ltd. companies.
According to the NCEUS, only
about 7% of the total workforce in
India has any form of social
security .With increased flexibility,
even among wage employees in
non-agricultural establishments,
social security coverage is
declining

4. ECSTU is a public sector undertaking
which will be mainly concerned with the
development of region .People working
under this organization would be
recruited through a exam held by state
government usually in three domain.
The first group will be of young
engineers i.e. civil mechanical and IT
ENGINEERS AND FROM other discipline
Second group will be of civil sector
people
And third one would be of trade people.
The proportion of people from the
three domains would be 70:20:10. out
of 100 officials 70 would be engineers
20 would be civil servants and 10 would
be people having idea of workers
problems
Engineers recruited will work for
infrastructural development and civil
servants would identify workers that
need social welfare with combined
efforts from trade union
representatives.
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ENGINEERS , CIVIL SERVANTS AND TRADE UNIONS (ECSTU) ORGANISATION

5. ECSTU
DEPARTMENT
Registration of all the
workers in a given
region with a unique
ECSTU worker I-card.
Opening of account
of each worker in
government BANKS .
If a Private org. Wants
to hire workers it
should be made
mandatory to hire
through ECSTU
department.
These private org. Will
pay government
defined wages to the
ECSTU Department and
not the workers.
This capital would be stored
in the ECSTU account and
after every month it would
be paid as a basic salary to
all the workers.
ECSTU will be opened in
every 4 to 5 districts at the
initial level in each district.
Registration camps will
Be provided in the village with
the help of panchayat and an
official of ECSTU DEPARTMENT
would be monitoring the work
of the panchayat/gram
parishad people. ECSTU should
have power to check the
working of these gram parishad
people and can question its
working.

6. Civil societies will mainly consist
of retired IAS officers along with
graduated young minds
Nominate a official who is
graduated from subject like
public administration, humanities
into these groups. The main
purpose of this official will be to
prepare paper report of the
workers demand.
These two groups will be directly
recruited by ECSTU, which will be
in every state. Each branch will
be headed by a person who has
to answer the district minister in
chief ministers meetings.
As this body is mainly concerned
with development of an area and
social welfare of people, media
will be allowed and can question
on its working
At end of the month /quartly all
the reports on expenditure,
funds taken and consumed
would kept for future references
to the RTI.
All the branches in a state would
be under state government but
any change in its working process
would not be in its hand.
The state government should
provide a medium such a
member of these ECSTU can
raise their demand in state
political meetings.
In case of any dispute or
malfunctioning ,the judiciary or
law system can ask report from
the RTI and harsh decision shall
be taken .
PROCESS INVOLVED IN WORKING OF ECSTU ORGANISATION

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8. INDEPENDENT
•ECSTU ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS
IMPLEMENTATION WILL INTRODUCE US WITH
THAT BODY WHICH IS MORE INDEPENDENT
•MEDIA CAN ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR WORKING.
RIGID
DECISIONS
•THIS WOULD DECREASE CURRUPTION RATE.ECSTU
WOULD NOT BE UNDER THE DOMINANCE OF ANY
PARTY.ITS DECISION WOULD BE TAKEN UNDER
THE EYES OF JUDICIARY SYSTEM.
RESPONSIBLE
•ECSTU ORGANISATION WILL BE RESPONSIBLE AS
CONSISTS OF YOUNG INNOVATIVE MINDS AS
WELL AS RETIRED IAS EXPERIENCES.
TRANSPARENT
• ECSTU ORGANISATION WILL CREATE TRANSPARANCY AS
FAR AS MANAGING OF FUNDS AND ITS WORKING AT
GRASSN ROOT IS CONCERNED.
• ECSDU WILL ORGANISE SEMINARS AND AWARENESS
PROGRAMS AT ITS LEVEL TO PROMOTE AWARENESS
AMONG THE PEOPLE
This ECSTU department should
consists of young engineers who
will be already working in private
sector undertakings of government
organization. These engineers will
keep an eye on the working of the
ECSTU through their existing
technology and will be mainly
concerned for developing newer
humanitarian technology. The funds
received from the government will
directly given to this ECSTU
DEPARTMENT that would provide
jobs and other facilities and also
developing technology in rural
areas.
ECSTU will provide workforce to
all the private sector contractor
with large workers requirements
and on basis of minimum three
months bond .
SALIENT FEATURES OF ECSTU DEPARTMENT

9. By enacting the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act,
the government has also shown its willingness and desire
to take initiatives in this regard.
There are also welfare funds administered by central and
state governments provided to particular segments of the
informal sector.
The government legislated an Unorganised Workers Social
Security Act in December 2008 and appended 10 Schemes
in a Schedule to the Act.
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) introduced in
2006 aimed at strengthening the rural health infrastructure,
provision of qualified personnel, and primary health
services in the rural areas.
The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), initiated in
2008, a healthcare insurance package that covers up to Rs
30,000 for in-patient related expenses for families that hold
below poverty line (BPL) cards.
MAJOR STEPS TAKEN SO FAR FOR THE EXISTING SYSTEM
As the steps taken by the
government are not able to
eradicate injustice done to the
informal sector workers because
of poor running mechanism. Also
corruption is involved at every
stage.ECSTU consists people of all
age groups that will lead to better
implementation of the acts.

10. We choose this theme because it is the root cause of all the problems: migration, poverty
Illiteracy and other social problems .If the Indian government is able to solve this
problem .There will be no power to STOP INDIA TO EACH TO ITS HIGHEST GLORY
RIGID
DECISIONS
Implementation of ECSTU in state
government is very easy . There are many
factors that influence the actual cost of
implementation: the anticipated
transaction volume, scope and complexity
of the implementation, and the number
of third-party integrations, Construction
of centre at each level in state would be
funded by state authority.
The initial investment for these centre
would be high. But after that its fluent
working will provide social welfare to the
society. Funds can be raised easily and its
utilisation will be in effective manner.
These programs consist of all forms of
public action, government and non-
government, that are designed to transfer
resources, either cash or in-kind (e.g. food
transfers), to eligible vulnerable and
deprived persons.[Social assistance
interventions may include:
Welfare and social services to highly
vulnerable groups such as the physically
or mentally disabled, orphans, or
substance abusers.
Cash or in-kind transfers such as food
stamps and family allowances.
Temporary subsidies such as life-line
tariffs, housing subsidies, or support of
lower prices of staple food in times of
crisis.

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