MANTHAN

THE BIGGEST YOUTH MOVEMENT

TOPIC- PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE :

Providing social welfare to informal sector workers

ARMY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , PUNE

TEAM NAME- FALCONS

TEAM COORDINATOR- ABHAY KUMAR PANDEY

MEMBER - MITHUN K JAMES

ZAIN IQBAL

SANTOSH KUMAR

AYUSH NEGI “……he is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote by every means in

his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens”

MSPI 2012 report

Informal sector formal sector

Social welfare is defined as, “a set of public measures that a society provides for its members to protect them against economic and social distress caused by the absence or a substantial reduction of income from work as result of various contingencies(sickness, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, invalidity, old age or death of the breadwinner), the provision of healthcare and the provision of benefits for families with children. These measures refer to both statutory and non-statutory measures, usually taken in a life cycle perspective, which cover both contingent and chronic needs.

Major areas of vulnerability identified as: i) illness requiring hospitalization, ii) untimely death of bread winner, iii)unemployment, iv) maternity episodes, v) retirement from work.

1.A large number of them are below poverty line

Impoverished

2.Working at low wages and with no security.

Unorganized Labour

3.They are migrant in nature and dispersed all over the country.

Migrant

4.Poor literacy level are making them more vulnerable.

Low level of literacy

CHARACTERISTICS OF UNORGANISED LABOUR IN INDIA

“The NSS data from 1999-00, 2004-05 & 2009-10 employment surveys show that: (a) the percentage of informal workers among paid workers in the non-agricultural sector has steadily increased. (b) The percentage of such workers with access to social security has declined. (c) Informalisation has grown even in the organised sector, and even in the public sector and in public ltd. companies.

According to the NCEUS, only

about 7% of the total workforce in India has any form of social

security .With increased flexibility, even among wage employees in non-agricultural establishments,

social security coverage is declining

ECSTU is a public sector undertaking which will be mainly concerned with the development of region .People working

under this organization would be recruited through a exam held by state government usually in three domain.

The first group will be of young engineers i.e. civil mechanical and IT

ENGINEERS AND FROM other discipline

Second group will be of civil sector people

And third one would be of trade people.

The proportion of people from the three domains would be 70:20:10. out of 100 officials 70 would be engineers

20 would be civil servants and 10 would be people having idea of workers

problems

Engineers recruited will work for infrastructural development and civil servants would identify workers that need social welfare with combined

efforts from trade union representatives.

P R O P O S E D S O L U T I O N

ENGINEERS , CIVIL SERVANTS AND TRADE UNIONS (ECSTU) ORGANISATION

ECSTU DEPARTMENT

Registration of all the workers in a given

region with a unique ECSTU worker I-card.

Opening of account of each worker in

government BANKS .

If a Private org. Wants to hire workers it should be made

mandatory to hire through ECSTU

department.

These private org. Will pay government

defined wages to the ECSTU Department and

not the workers.

This capital would be stored in the ECSTU account and

after every month it would be paid as a basic salary to

all the workers.

ECSTU will be opened in every 4 to 5 districts at the initial level in each district. Registration camps will Be provided in the village with the help of panchayat and an official of ECSTU DEPARTMENT would be monitoring the work of the panchayat/gram parishad people. ECSTU should have power to check the working of these gram parishad people and can question its working.

Civil societies will mainly consist of retired IAS officers along with

graduated young minds

Nominate a official who is graduated from subject like

public administration, humanities into these groups. The main

purpose of this official will be to prepare paper report of the

workers demand.

These two groups will be directly recruited by ECSTU, which will be in every state. Each branch will be headed by a person who has to answer the district minister in

chief ministers meetings.

As this body is mainly concerned with development of an area and social welfare of people, media

will be allowed and can question on its working

At end of the month /quartly all the reports on expenditure, funds taken and consumed

would kept for future references to the RTI.

All the branches in a state would be under state government but

any change in its working process would not be in its hand.

The state government should provide a medium such a

member of these ECSTU can raise their demand in state

political meetings.

In case of any dispute or malfunctioning ,the judiciary or law system can ask report from the RTI and harsh decision shall

be taken .

PROCESS INVOLVED IN WORKING OF ECSTU ORGANISATION

I M P L E M E N T A T I O N O F S O L U T I O N

INDEPENDENT

• ECSTU ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION WILL INTRODUCE US WITH THAT BODY WHICH IS MORE INDEPENDENT

• MEDIA CAN ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR WORKING.

RIGID DECISIONS

• THIS WOULD DECREASE CURRUPTION RATE.ECSTU WOULD NOT BE UNDER THE DOMINANCE OF ANY PARTY.ITS DECISION WOULD BE TAKEN UNDER THE EYES OF JUDICIARY SYSTEM.

RESPONSIBLE

• ECSTU ORGANISATION WILL BE RESPONSIBLE AS CONSISTS OF YOUNG INNOVATIVE MINDS AS WELL AS RETIRED IAS EXPERIENCES.

TRANSPARENT

• ECSTU ORGANISATION WILL CREATE TRANSPARANCY AS FAR AS MANAGING OF FUNDS AND ITS WORKING AT GRASSN ROOT IS CONCERNED.

• ECSDU WILL ORGANISE SEMINARS AND AWARENESS PROGRAMS AT ITS LEVEL TO PROMOTE AWARENESS AMONG THE PEOPLE

This ECSTU department should

consists of young engineers who

will be already working in private

sector undertakings of government

organization. These engineers will

keep an eye on the working of the

ECSTU through their existing

technology and will be mainly

concerned for developing newer

humanitarian technology. The funds

received from the government will

directly given to this ECSTU

DEPARTMENT that would provide

jobs and other facilities and also

developing technology in rural

areas.

ECSTU will provide workforce to all the private sector contractor with large workers requirements and on basis of minimum three months bond .

SALIENT FEATURES OF ECSTU DEPARTMENT

By enacting the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, the government has also shown its willingness and desire

to take initiatives in this regard.

There are also welfare funds administered by central and state governments provided to particular segments of the informal sector.

The government legislated an Unorganised Workers Social Security Act in December 2008 and appended 10 Schemes in a Schedule to the Act.

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) introduced in 2006 aimed at strengthening the rural health infrastructure, provision of qualified personnel, and primary health services in the rural areas.

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), initiated in 2008, a healthcare insurance package that covers up to Rs 30,000 for in-patient related expenses for families that hold below poverty line (BPL) cards.

MAJOR STEPS TAKEN SO FAR FOR THE EXISTING SYSTEM

As the steps taken by the government are not able to

eradicate injustice done to the informal sector workers because of poor running mechanism. Also

corruption is involved at every stage.ECSTU consists people of all age groups that will lead to better

implementation of the acts.

We choose this theme because it is the root cause of all the problems: migration, poverty Illiteracy and other social problems .If the Indian government is able to solve this problem .There will be no power to STOP INDIA TO EACH TO ITS HIGHEST GLORY

RIGID DECISIONS

Implementation of ECSTU in state government is very easy . There are many factors that influence the actual cost of implementation: the anticipated transaction volume, scope and complexity of the implementation, and the number of third-party integrations, Construction of centre at each level in state would be funded by state authority. The initial investment for these centre would be high. But after that its fluent working will provide social welfare to the society. Funds can be raised easily and its utilisation will be in effective manner.

These programs consist of all forms of public action, government and non-government, that are designed to transfer resources, either cash or in-kind (e.g. food transfers), to eligible vulnerable and deprived persons.[Social assistance interventions may include: Welfare and social services to highly vulnerable groups such as the physically or mentally disabled, orphans, or substance abusers. Cash or in-kind transfers such as food stamps and family allowances. Temporary subsidies such as life-line tariffs, housing subsidies, or support of lower prices of staple food in times of crisis.

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