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Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

NAC prod to govt

-The Telegraph
 
The Sonia-Gandhi headed National Advisory Council will prod the government to bring a law to protect unorganised retail sector workers as it brings foreign direct investment into multi-brand retail.

Sonia, the council chairperson and the Congress chief, showed the green flag to the government on FDI in retail.

The NAC in 2005 had drafted the unorganised sector workers’ social security bill that proposed a national authority to oversee the implementation of the envisaged law. The bill provides for the creation of workers’ facilitation centres that would get them registered, give them social security cards and upgrade their skills. The bill also has the provision of setting up employment exchanges. Most important, the bill wants the centres to create and maintain a database of workers in the unorganised sector.

It also looks at a range of security benefits, from health care and maternity and old age schemes to insurance, housing and educational programmes.

The NAC said the Centre must levy a cess or an “appropriate” tax on employers of unorganised retail sector workers to fund the schemes.

The panel, which meets here tomorrow, will also pressure the government to amend guidelines in the Rajiv Housing Programme for slum dwellers to include in its ambit the “homeless” and “precariously housed” people.

The council has drawn up a national programme for the urban homeless that recommends at least one “permanent and well-equipped shelter” for 100 people for every 1 lakh of the population in keeping with Supreme Court directives.

It stressed that such homeless shelters should have beds, toilets, potable water, primary health, de-addiction and recreation facilities.

The council called for setting aside 30 per cent of the permanent shelters for the “most vulnerable groups” among the homeless such as single women and their children, the aged as well as physically and mentally challenged people.

It said the homeless should “automatically” — that is without additional documents — be entitled to BPL identification, ration cards, voter cards, bank/post office accounts, insurance and free legal aid.