There is a need to find ways to channelise the unorganised workforce into the mainstream of the organisation, the apex body of public sector units SCOPE said today.
SCOPE Chairman C S Verma said that more than 90 per cent of the unorganised workforce do not have sufficient and reliable access to promotional and protective social security measures undertaken by the government from time to time.
Emphasising the need to increase the spending on social security measures, he said: "the biggest challenge today is to seek ways to channelise the unorganised workforce into the mainstream of the organisation".
He was speaking at a function on 'Social Security in India' here.
He said that CPSEs have been playing a significant role in providing social security network to its 1.4 million employees through various social security schemes and programmes.
"However, there is need for institutionalised and state-cum-society regulated social security arrangement to address the problem in wider social/economic interest at national level," he added.
Speaking at the occasion, Stuti Kacker, Secretary in the Department of Disability Affairs urged the PSUs to help the disabled persons and ensure to bring them into the mainstream of the society.
