The document discusses issues faced by informal sector workers in India and proposes solutions. It notes that over 90% of India's workforce is informal and accounts for 50% of national product. Issues faced include low wages, lack of social protections, health hazards and lack of bargaining power due to not being organized. It proposes establishing worker registration systems and departments in each district to record informal workers and provide them benefits and access to loans. This would help minimize corruption and ensure programs reach intended workers. Challenges of implementation include potential for false data and lack of awareness, which public promotion campaigns could address.

1. (Protecting the Vulnerable: Providing
social welfare to informal sector
workers)
Uplifting the
informal sector

2. INTRODUCTION……
The First Indian National Commission on Labour (1966-69) defined
„unorganized sector workforce‟ as –
“those workers who have not been able to organize themselves in pursuit
of their common interest dues to certain constraints like casual nature of
employment, ignorance and illiteracy, small and scattered size of
establishments”.
Their employment relationship, in law or practice, is not subject to:
 National labour legislation
 Income taxation
 Social protection or
 Entitlement to certain employment benefits, e.g. paid annual leave, sick
leave, etc
More than 90% of India’s workforce belongs to
the informal sector and accounts for 50% of the
national product

3. PROBLEMS…
1 Has a high percentage of migrant and the sector is a prominent employer for child labour.
Click to add Title3 Long working hours and lack of employment security.
Click to add Title4 Small capital with business expenditures indistinguishable from household expenses.
Click to add Title2 Generally a low wage and a low earning sector.
5 Organizations of people involved and level of management are of lower level.
Click to add Title6 Some of the works are seasonal which implies no work for some part of year.
Click to add Title7 Workers are unorganized into trade unions which adversely affect there bargaining power.
Click to add Title8 Health hazards are exists in number of occupations.

4. Causes……….
INFORMAL
SECTOR
UNEMPLOYMENTUNSAFE WOMEN
ILITERACY
POPULATION
CORRUPTION
POVERTY

5. Estimates of Employment in India
Industrial Category No. of persons (in millions)
Formal Sector Informal Sector
Agriculture 1.39 238.87
Non-Agriculture 26.68 131.5
Mining & Quarrying 1.01 1.25
Manufacturing 6.71 37.07
Electricity, Gas And Water 1 0.04
Construction 1.17 16.36
Trade, Hotels And Restaurants 0.49 40.37
Transport, Storage & Comm. 3.15 11.48
Financial Services 1.65 3.29
Community Services 11.49 21.64
All Sectors 28.07 (93%) 370.37
Year: 1999/00 (Total labour force: 406 million) (GDP share: 63%)

6. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS…
1.Solution for hawkers
Separate hawker’s
market which would
provide cleaner and
organized space for
commerce and also
provide security for
their shops.
Government should
build proper shops
(on roadside) which
would provide them
with secured shops,
which in turn would
keep the city clean and
help in land
management.

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Labour union
should be elected
among
unorganized
industrial labours
to have direct
contact with higher
authority for
betterment of
labour grade
Awareness
programme
• by school students
in form of rally,
nukkad natak and
site visits
•by government in
form of various types
of advertissement(
eg:-tv ad,billboard)
Launch of
Karyodaya Jan
Abhiyan.*

8. DISTRICT
KARYODAYA JAN ABHIYAN..
*Central government should
launch a scheme in the
interest of the informal
sector under which
government can give
contract to private company
which would be in-charge
of creating departments in
every district for each state
which would keep a record
of all the informal workers
in that area
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
STATE
PRIVATE COMPANY

9. …CONTINUED
All the informal sector workers would have to fill up a form
giving details about their family members and
background, business and annual income along with their
personal details .Each worker would be provided an
*enrollment number which would:-
 help their family to receive compensations( in case of
medical emergency).
 help them receive funds provided by the government.(as
mentioned in the **Acts for informal sector).
 help them get business loans at low interest rate.
* and the registrations would be computerized
**Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme.

10. IMPACT OF THE SOLUTION
SCALABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
MEASUREMENT
From the number of
enrollment forms the
government can know
the actual number of
informal sector
population to be
worked upon.
During the initial
implementation stages
government can conduct
survey on monthly basis
and later on yearly basis
to take the feedback
from the population
whether they are being
benefited from the plan.
Along with the
survey government
can ask private
bodies to submit an
report on yearly
basis.

11. MERIT OF THE SOLUTION…
Many efforts and legislations have been laid down by the
government but unfortunately are very far from the reach
of the informal sector:
 The Unorganized Sector Social Security Act (2008)
 National Policy on Street Vendors (2009)
The reason mainly being corruption.
Corruption would be minimized if government gives
contract to private companies and people can get benefits
directly.

12. CHALLENGES and SOLUTIONS..
CHALLENGES
Legal:-People can show
false data to take
benefit of the scheme
SOLUTIONS
Submission of 1% of
the annual income
would be mandatory
to get the benefits of
the scheme(which
could act as source of
funding also)
Promotion of
scheme on a large
scale
Social :- Mass
unawareness about
the scheme

13. REFERENCES..
http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/restruc/stdy_rsturc_ch1.pdf
http://mospi.nic.in/mospi_new/upload/asi/ASI_main.htm?status=1&menu_id=88
http://indiancag.org/manthan/social-welfare-to-informal-sector-workers
http://www.wageindicator.org/main/documents/wwwmeetingjune06/informalindia
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/infoecon/docs/441/F596332090/women%20and%20men%20s
tat%20picture.pdf
http://www.halfmantr.com/display-national-issues/1046-informal-sector-in-india
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/workingpaper/10.1596/1813-9450-6454

14. REFERENCES…