Health Insurance for Domestic Workers

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. ***** MS/jk (Release ID: 1707226)