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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Missing National Social Security Funds for India's Unorganised Sector Workers -Himanshu Upadhyaya

The Missing National Social Security Funds for India's Unorganised Sector Workers -Himanshu Upadhyaya

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published Published on May 28, 2020   modified Modified on Jun 3, 2020

-TheWire.in

There remains a wide chasm between the financial resources committed in budgets and the actual expenditure aimed at providing social security benefits for workers.

The unprecedented crisis that the unplanned lockdown pushed workers into has once again forced social activists and researchers to contemplate over whether a legislation passed in 2008 by parliament could have provided relief to workers.

Careful scrutiny of the financial resources as committed in budgets and the actual expenditure to provide social security benefits for these workers shows us how our governments have extended only lofty rhetoric in the name of workers.

On December 30, 2008, with the president’s assent, The Unorganised Sector Worker’s Social Security Act, 2008 (Act No 33 of 2008) came into force. This legislation was an outcome of years of campaigning by organisations working with unorganised sector workers. During the years 2006 and 2007, the slogan Social Security Now had reverberated across lanes and streets in different cities. Millions of workers marched to draw the attention of India’s lawmakers to their grief and acknowledge their rights.

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TheWire.in, 28 May, 2020, https://thewire.in/labour/national-social-security-fund-unorganised-workers


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