This document discusses India's large informal sector workforce. It notes that 94% of India's working population is part of the informal sector, totaling 487 million workers. Informal sector workers lack protections, benefits, and stable employment. The document proposes that the government establish a new department to support informal workers by providing healthcare, education, social security, insurance, and enforcing labor laws and standards. This would help lift workers out of poverty, increase productivity, and enable India's economic and social development. The main challenge would be reducing corruption during implementation.

1. Submitted by:
Naman Sharma
Arti Panwar
Arvind Jain
Yashita Nainwal
Vivek Rana
ECE 3rd year
Dit university,Dehradun

2. Informal Sector workers produces legal goods and services ,but
engage in operations that are not registered.
Unlicensed , unregistered economic activity such as
oGeneral stores
oHandloom workers
oFarmers
oStreet vendors
oMine workers and labour
oPushcart vendors etc.
487 million workers, the second largest after China in labour Sector
of Indian economy.
94% working population is a part of informal sector in India.

3. India is adding 13 million new workers per year to its informal
sector pool.
58 million informal non agriculture enterprises.
94% working population is a part of informal sector.
Just create 57% of India’s national domestic product.
Low productivity.
Poverty rates high.
77% of this group are living their life below Rs.20 capita per day.
Increasing rate of child labour.
4 million Indian origin labours are migrant workers in the middle
east alone.
92.3% informal sector worker are in agriculture work in India.

4. Lack of support from Govt.
Long working hours and lack of employment security.
Low standard of living.
Difficult and often unsafe working conditions.
Don’t have any social and financial facilities.
Some kind of work are seasonal which means there would be no
work for some part of the year.
Health hazards exist in a number of occupations.
These units are not covered under any labour laws , employees
do not have facilities like PF and ESI.
Workers are usually unorganized and ignorant about their rights.
Do not implementation of Govt. projects and schemes
effectively.

5. A worker working in Mine
without any protection Child Labour

6. CONST:Construction,UNREG:Unregistered,GOV:Government,CSP
:Community ,social and personal services, TSC: Transport, PU:
Public utilities , FIRE: Finance, insurance and real estate.
Here

7.  Govt. should make a draft bill which includes minimum working
conditions of work for informal sector workers such as
• An eight hour working day with a break of at least half hour.
• One paid day rest per week.
• Non discrimination on the basis of sex , caste , religion , and origin.
• Adequate safety equipment at the work place and compensation for
accidents.
• Protection sexual harassment, provision of childcare.
• Easy health facilities at lower cost.
• Reservation in each field.
 Govt. should issue an individual identity card for all informal workers
 Govt. should make a separate department for informal sector
workers in central which have branches in each village of the country
and which looks for the welfare of informal sector workers.

8. Structure of this department
Each branch is directly connected to the higher branches.
The officers in this branch must not be a minister , there must be a
team of IAS , IPS officer and few more officers.
Have sub-departments for each in formal sector.
Have a security team for these workers which take action when
anything wrong is happened with them.
CENTER
STATES
DISTRICT
VILLAGES

9. Take actions on the complain of a workers.
Look for their benefits and make some new plans for providing
welfare to informal sector workers.
Conduct general awareness program to give information about
their rights , knowledge related to their work field.
Provide insurance , social security , education , health facilities to
these workers.
Take the action on any problem within 24 hours.
Make a direct connection between Govt. and informal sector
workers.
Do effectively implementation of Govt. plans and scheme for
informal sector workers.

10. Insurance industry come forward for health care management.
Social insurance component should include compensation for ill
health , accident , and death.
Evolvement of a funding mechanism for various social security
measures.
Govt. should collect money through various taxes and use this for
beneficial of informal sector workers .

11. Through this department they are able to get benefits of Govt.
plans.
They are able to use the health , education and various other
facilities at lower cost.
Poverty is removed from the society.
Productivity increases.
Able to get knowledge about their work field and rights so that
they use them easily.
The main challenge in the successful implementation of this solution
is the corruption which is very necessary to be removed from Indian
society .

12. India’s leap into economic and social prosperity can only occur if it
can enable these workers to live and work together with full
potential and improve their status in the society.
Article on india’s informal sector workers by Rina Aggrawal.
Wikipedia and various websites on internet.
Report by WIEGO (women in informal employment : globalizing
and organizing.
Report by CWE (Centre for workers education).
Institute for human rights and business report.
Various research papers and reports.