Lok Sabha Question No. 2227 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-08
Subject: Health Insurance for Domestic Workers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Rekha Arun Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2227

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.03.2021

## HEALTH INSURANCE FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS

†2227. SHRIMATI REKHA VERMA:

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

- (a)whether  the  Government  has  the  data  of  people  working  as domestic workers across the country;
- (b)if  not,  whether  the  Government  is  formulating  any  scheme  to identify  and  nominate  domestic  workers  and  if  so,  the  details thereof;
- (c)whether  the  Government  proposes  to  make  Health  Insurance mandatory for the domestic workers and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a): The  number  of  domestic  workers  as  per  Census  2011  are  at Annexure-I.
- (b): Does not arise.

Contd..2/-

(c): 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. Several Central Sector Schemes like  PMJJBY,  PMSBY,  PM-SYM  etc.  already  provide  social  security cover  to  all  the  unorganised  workers  including  domestic  workers regarding insurance, disability, pension etc. Domestic Workers Sector Skill Council (DWSSC) under Ministry of Skill Development Entrepreneurship is imparting various skill development training programmes to domestic workers. 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.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2227 for 08.03.2021 regarding  Health Insurance for Domestic Workers .

| Sl. No.   | 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

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