LABOUR WELFARE SCHEMES FOR UNORGANIZED WORKERS

Labour plays an important role in shaping the growth of a country. Major labour force of India earns their living through work in the unorganised segment of the economy. Unorganised sector is in existence in rural as well as in urban areas. In rural areas Smaller and marginalized farmers, landless farmers, fisherman, wood cutting, labours in animal husbandry, brick kilns, quarries, mills etc. falls in unorganised sector. In urban areas construction workers, labourers in small scale industry, casual labour, handloom workers, employees in shops and commercial institutes, sweepers and scavengers, workers in other unprotected labour came in to this sector. There are various beneficiary schemes for organised workers but there are very less beneficiary schemes to unorganised sector workers.It is important to have welfare policies for unorganized workers because they form major proportion in Indian economy over organized sector. Because they they are having uncertainty in their work and wages. This gives rise to various problems. Like education of their children, pension, leaves and compensation etc. Though India is developing country there are many welfare schemes for unorganised sector workers are implemented. Labour welfare is in concurrent list so both central and state governments had worked some plans on labour welfare according to their needs .But there are many hurdles in implementations of these welfare schemes such as low literacy rate, lack of information, migrant workers, child labour etc. In the present research paper an attempt has been made to study some welfare schemes for unorganised workers and problems in their implementation.