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"The Economic Survey for 2012-13 recognizes that jobs created by the industry are largely those “of low productivity and non–contractual” and offer “little protection and no benefits”.
The rhetoric becomes even more blatant and obvious given the fact that there is no reference in the relevant section to address social security entitlements of unorganized workers, who by their own admission constitute more than 95% of the workforce," she said today.
She also called it wanting in commitment of social security for unorganised workers.
"It assumes that government’s commitment stops with merely listing out all the major programmes such as Aam Admi BimaYojana, the Rashtriya Swasthya BimaYojana, the Unorganized Workers Social Security Act 2008 and the National Social Security Fund. It neither clarifies nor addresses how the government intends to address the social protection needs of a large section of the population that is struggling to lead a life with dignity," she said.
"Instead the Survey reiterates the government’s urgency to achieve ‘fiscal consolidation’, by increasing revenues and ‘rationalizing’ or reducing expenditure, particularly on subsidies," she said.
