A report by the National Commission for Enterprises inUnorganised Sector in 2007 has said that only eight per cent of India’s workforce enjoyed social security; 91 per cent were in the informal sector.
And, many in the formal sector do not get the benefits that should accrue to them.
Conclusion
While funding the scheme will be a challenge for the government, it is seen as one that will gain broad popular support.
The new policy will be part of the social security code, one of four codes that the labour ministry is finalising and will subsume 17 existing items of legislation governing social security coverage in the country.
India Tops List Of New TB Cases In 2016: WHO
India topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 per cent of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a Global TB Report 2017 published by the World Health Organisation.
India was followed by Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa.
According to the report, an estimated 1.7 million people died from TB in 2016, including nearly 400,000 people who were co-infected with HIV, recording a drop by 4 per cent as compared to 2015.
Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a health security threat.
According to the report, underreporting and underdiagnosis of TB cases continues to be a challenge, especially in countries with large unregulated private sectors and weak health systems.
Ending the TB epidemic requires action beyond the health sector to address the risk factors and determinants of the disease. For the first time the Global TB Report presents results from a new multisectoral monitoring framework that identifies linkages with the TB epidemic across seven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
