WORKING CONDITION OF UNORGANIZED WORKERS IN INDIA

The significance of unorganized sector is well recognized not only due to its contribution in the economy but also since it provides livelihood to a large fraction of population. Workers who do not have work security,employment security and social security are defined as unorganized workers. These workers are involved not only in the unorganized sector but also in the organized sector of our country and constitute about 93 per cent of total Indian workforce. Unorganized workers are often bound to live in poverty due to their low wages and that too not on regular basis. Most of the unorganized workers get work on casual basis. Desperate condition of these workers is not hidden anymore and calls for measures that need to be taken to improve their condition.High Economic growth experienced by our country in the last two decades has created a greater number of jobs in the unorganized sector than in the organized sector and thus aggravated the problems.Indian Government has made concerted effortsin previous decades to ensure minimum conditions of work for the unorganized workers and also to improve their well-being.However, effective implementation of these initiatives is still questionable.The present paper focuses on problems of unorganized workers in India.Initiatives taken by the Indian Government to improve unorganized workers working conditions as well as improving their well-being has also been discussed in this paper.Some measures have also been suggested to overcome the problems which workers face in these organizations.