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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Health Insurance for Domestic Workers
Posted On: 24 MAR 2021 3:21PM by PIB Delhi
The Central Government had enacted the Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, now
subsumed in the Code on Social Security, 2020, for providing social security to all unorganized
workers including domestic workers. The Act provides formulation of social security schemes viz.
life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits & old age protection by the central
Government. The state Government are mandated under the Act to formulate suitable welfare
schemes for unorganized sector workers including domestic workers relating to provident fund,
employment injury benefits housing, education schemes for children, skill up gradation of workers,
financial assistance & old age homes. Central Sector Schemes like PMJJBY, PMSBY, PM-SYM
provide social security cover to all the unorganised workers including domestic workers in respect
of life & disability cover, insurance and pension. Ayushman Bharat PMJAY provides secondary
and tertiary health benefits to all unorganized workers including domestic workers who are covered
as eligible beneficiaries as per Socio Economic Caste census Data, 2011.
Ministry of Labour& Employment is in the process of developing a comprehensive National Data
base of the Unorganized workers (NDUW) to collect relevant information of unorganized workers
including domestic workers and inter-alia help in delivery of various social security and welfare
schemes being implemented for them.
The number of domestic workers as per Census 2011 is given below:-
S l
.
N
o.
States/UTs
Number of Domestic
Workers
1
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
UT
2,085
2
Andhra Pradesh
4,66,209
3
Arunachal Pradesh
2,855
4
Assam
38,397
5
Bihar
39,685
6
Chandigarh UT
23,110
7
Chhattisgarh
1,08,422
8
Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT
1,403
9
Daman & Diu UT
1,503
10
NCT of Delhi
2,11,767
11
Goa
20,810
12
Gujarat
2,39,517
13
Haryana
1,02,476
14
Himachal Pradesh
23,128
15
Jammu & Kashmir
18,937
16
Jharkhand
39,371
17
Karnataka
3,26,585
18
Kerala
1,65,012
19
Lakshadweep UT
39
20
Madhya Pradesh
1,89,170
21
Maharashtra
9,92,040
22
Manipur
1,248
23
Meghalaya
11,461
24
Mizoram
1,718
25
Nagaland
2,470
26
Odisha
92,714
27
Puducherry UT
22,815
28
Punjab
1,41,861
29
Rajasthan
99,288
30
Sikkim
3,157
31
Tamilnadu
6,05,169
32
Tripura
8,770
33
Uttar Pradesh
2,01,316
34
Uttarakhand
27,512
35
West Bengal
5,49,335
Total
47,81,355
Data as per Census 2011
This information was given by Minister of State (I/C) for Labour & Employment Shri Santosh Kumar
Gangwar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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