Social security for workers coming soon; check out what Narendra Modi govt is planning

[Informalisation and Labour Rights - Related News]

Even as it implements reform proposals aimed at improving the ease of doing business, the labour ministry will also focus on improving the lives of the vast workforce in the unorganised sector through a host of initiatives, including giving them some sort of social security cover. The unorganised sector, which accounts for a little over 82% of the country's total around 49-crore workforce, has largely been out of the social security schemes as well as the ambit of the labour regulations, and hence are a deprived lot also.