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Rajya Sabha
The National Advisory Council have recently forwarded the draft of a proposed “Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security Bill, 2005” to the Government of India. The draft is intended to address a Social Security System for Unorganised Workers. It, inter-alia, propose to redefine “worker” so as to include all types of unorganised workers in the definition of workers and to provide them with social security including health, insurance, maternity benefit and pension. The draft Bill seeks to reach the workers through Workers Facilitation Centres to be set up and supervised by the Facilitating Agencies which could include Post Offices, Cooperative Societies, Micro-Finance Institutions, Trade Union, District and Village Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies.
This information was given by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Shri K. Chandrasekhar Rao in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
MLD :LK/labour-80(unorg. sector) Aug 4.
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