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A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold -Santosh Mehrotra and Kingshuk Sarkar

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published Published on May 20, 2021   modified Modified on May 21, 2021

-The Hindu

The universalisation of social security remains an unfulfilled aspiration in the new code on social security

As COVID-19 destroys lives and livelihoods, an unprepared government has rendered low-paid, informal workers, who constitute 91% of the workforce, totally hapless, pushing them further into poverty. Imagine if these same informal workers had social security (including free basic curative care in public clinics and hospitals, the elderly had old age pensions, the dying had death/disability insurance or life insurance). Imagine also that they had at least a minimum income guarantee, which prevented them from falling into debt; debt is currently exploding among the poor as their incomes collapsed.

Gaps in the code

India’s Parliament in September 2020 passed a Social Security Code (SS Code 2020). Does this law even attempt to provide these, let alone guarantee them? That is what we examine here. We shall set aside the issue of free basic curative health care, since the SS Code does not have that in its scope. Fair enough, but has the Government of India ensured that at least in a year of a nation-wide pandemic, the health Budget for FY 2021-22 is higher than the pathetic just over 1% of GDP that it has been for decades (making all past central/State governments complicit)? If we leave out the allocation for the COVID-19 vaccine (still mostly unused), then the FY22 health Budget is actually lower.

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The Hindu, 20 May, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-collage-of-laws-that-leaves-the-worker-out-in-the-cold/article34600276.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR0c1p6VB17MVjj6rRbOK7ghbUIXd4CWC_s_Ui8-0_z-abth7IcZU5dul5M


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