Over 15 per cent of slum people living in the Capital city are getting regular work, revealed a study conducted by the Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD) on the socio-economic condition of the unorganised workers in the urban slums here.
The study report, which was released at a meeting here on Saturday, also showed that 45 per cent of the households live in rented houses and do not have minimum basic amenities. Only 20 per cent of the households live in semi-pucca houses with asbestos roofs while rest of them stay in kuchha houses in miserable conditions.
About 70 per cent of the total unorganised labourers, the report said, are engaged in construction work and the others in petty vending and domestic works. Open defecation was found to have been widely practised as 50 per cent of the workers are illiterate, the report said. The report further stated that no social security and proper livelihood, no insurance, EPF and ESI are available for the unorganised workers. They are denied minimum wages and compensation due to poor enforcement of available legislation in the State.
“Though a welfare board has constituted for these workers, it is only for the namesake,” the report said, adding, “The responsibility of registration of unorganised workers, developing effective plan and programme for welfare of the unorganised sector workers has not taken shape as yet.”