Women in garment sector lack access to welfare schemes, finds study

[Garment & Leather Workers - Related News]

Owing to reasons ranging from tight work schedules to the lack of awareness, garment workers in the city continue to be out of the ambit of many welfare schemes floated by the Union and State governments as well as local bodies. A community-centred baseline study - "Extent and quality of access of marginalised women to key welfare schemes, programmes and entitlements"- found that a large number of women in the garment sector in Bengaluru, along with domestic workers, did not know how to apply or access schemes.