Lok Sabha Question No. 1906 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-30
Subject: Health Insurance to Unorganised Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: ABHISHEK SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1906 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2018

## HEALTH INSURANCE TO UNORGANISED WORKERS

1906. SHRI ABHISHEK SINGH:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)the  schemes  presently  run  by  Government  to  provide  health  insurance  to unorganised workers which constitutes about 93 per cent of total work force in the country;
- (b)whether  any  scheme  is  being  implemented  by  the  Government  to  ensure minimum guarantee of salary, if any unorganised sector worker is unable to go to work due to illness or medical issues and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)the  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  better  working environment to the workers in the unorganised sector?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

- (a): Government  has  approved  the  launch  of  Ayushman  Bharat  -  National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) during the year 2018-19 to cover over 10 crore  poor  and  vulnerable  families  (approx..  50  crore  beneficiaries)  based  on deprivation and occupational criteria as per SECC  both rural and urban providing coverage  upto  Rs.  5  lakh  per  family  per  year  for  secondary  and  tertiary hospitalization.Government  has  implemented  Rashtriya  Swasthya  Bima  Yojana (RSBY) which provided health insurance of Rs. 30000/- per annum per family to BPL and 11 other defined categories of unorganised workers.
- (b): No, Madam.
- (c): The  Government  has  been  ensuring    better  working  environment  to  the workers in the unorganized sector by duly implementing the enactments such as Contract  Labour  (Regulation  and  Abolition)  Act,  1970,  Building  and  Other Construction Workers (REC&S) Act, 1996, Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 etc.  Further  the  Code  on  Occupation  Safety  and  Working  Conditions  has  been drafted  encompassing  various  provisions  related  to  safety,  welfare,  working hours and  working  conditions  of  all workers  which  is  in pre legislative consultative stage. The particulars of inspections for the past 3 years carried out under  these  enactments  by  the  Central  Industrial  Relations  Machinery  (CIRM) officials are indicated in Annexure 'A'.

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Details  of  Inspections  Conducted  under  applicable  labour  laws  during the last three years in central sphere establishments.

## CONTRACT LABOUR (REGULATIONS & ABOLITIONS) ACT, 1970

|   S.No. | Particulars                    |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |
|---------|--------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|       1 | No. of Inspections Conducted   |     10593 |      8843 |      8490 |
|       2 | No. of Irregularities detected |    117936 |     89296 |     97779 |
|       3 | No. Irregularities Rectified   |     73741 |     68808 |     68716 |
|       4 | No. of Prosecutions Launched   |      3411 |      3168 |      3538 |
|       5 | No. of Convictions             |      2009 |      2266 |      2583 |

## BOCW (RE&CS) Act, 1996

|   S.No. | Particulars                    |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |
|---------|--------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|       1 | No. of Inspections Conducted   |      2086 |      1372 |      1473 |
|       2 | No. of Irregularities detected |     21870 |     15689 |     20315 |
|       3 | No. Irregularities Rectified   |     15695 |     16360 |      8808 |
|       4 | No. of Prosecutions Launched   |       309 |       265 |       370 |
|       5 | No. of Convictions             |       193 |       297 |       248 |

## ISMW (RE&ES) Act, 1979

(b)

|   S.No. | Particulars                    |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |
|---------|--------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|       1 | No. of Inspections Conducted   |       173 |       122 |       209 |
|       2 | No. of Irregularities detected |      2744 |      2214 |      2952 |
|       3 | No. Irregularities Rectified   |      2240 |      1848 |      1939 |
|       4 | No. of Prosecutions Launched   |        61 |        52 |        57 |
|       5 | No. of Convictions             |        44 |        59 |        47 |

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