{"id":987523994,"date":"2021-03-25T03:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/india-to-extend-social-protection-cover-to-4-78-million-domestic-workers\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:29:52","slug":"india-to-extend-social-protection-cover-to-4-78-million-domestic-workers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/india-to-extend-social-protection-cover-to-4-78-million-domestic-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"India to extend social protection cover to 4.78 million domestic workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India has enacted the&nbsp;Unorganized Workers\u2019 Social Security Act, 2008, now subsumed in the Code on Social Security, 2020&nbsp;for providing social security to all unorganized workers including domestic workers.&nbsp;<span><span><span><span><span>Ministry of Labour &amp; Employment (MoLE) is developing a comprehensive National Data base of the Unorganized Workers (NDUW) to collect relevant information of unorganized workers including domestic workers to deliver various social security and welfare benefits to them.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span><span>4.78 million domestic workers have been identified across the states using Census 2011 data.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Under the provisions of the Act, the state governments are mandated to formulate suitable welfare schemes relating to provident fund, employment injury benefits, housing, education, skill up-gradation, financial assistance &amp; old age homes while the central government schemes will provide social security cover in respect of life &amp; disability cover, health insurance and pension. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Ayushman Bharat PMJAY is already providing health insurance benefits to all unorganized workers including domestic workers who are covered as eligible beneficiaries as per Socio-Economic Caste Census Data, 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>For more information, refer <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1707226\"><span>https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1707226<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India has enacted the&nbsp;Unorganized Workers\u2019 Social Security Act, 2008, now subsumed in the Code on Social Security, 2020&nbsp;for providing social security to all unorganized workers including domestic workers.&nbsp;Ministry of Labour &amp; Employment (MoLE) is developing a comprehensive National Data base of the Unorganized Workers (NDUW) to collect relevant information of unorganized workers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"featured_media":987531141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987523994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987523994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987523994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987523994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987523994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987523994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}