The labour ministry will soon submit a detailed plan on providing social security to 37 crore (370 million) workers in the unorganised sector to a Group of Ministers, which is examining the proposal and slated to meet next week.
"By this week, we will give a detailed plan to the GoM, headed by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani," Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma told reporters in New Delhi on the sidelines of a function on "Stategic Value Creation for Corporates."
The minister said he was seeking to meet Advani and hoped that the GoM would indeed met next week.
Earlier the Union Cabinet, which met a week ago, had deferred any decision on the ambitious social security scheme aimed at benefitting 37 crore workers in the unorganized sector and referred the matter to GoM, which has ministers of finance, railways, law and petroleum and natural gas as its members.
The proposal to bring in 'Unorganised Sector Workers Bill, 2003' before the Cabinet comes in the backdrop of the recommendations of the Second Labour Commission, which submitted its report to the Centre last year.
The commission had suggested enactment of separate legislation for the unorganised sector in view of hardships faced by workers in that sector, which did not enjoy any form of social security.
Addressing the conference, Verma said Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in favour of providing social security to the workers in the unorganised sector.
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