The Helpless

It will not be an exaggeration to call our large unorganised sector the underbelly of the Indian economy. Uncared-for sector may be a more appropriate description though. Its workers, mostly semiskilled or unskilled, are engaged in diverse activities — at construction sites, in mines and quarries, fields and farms and in households as domestic helps. They can also be found in local shops and bakeries and in zardozi or carpet-making units. Then there are juveniles — girls and boys — picking rags for a living and so on. And we pause in dilemma whether women and adolescents in brothels should be recognised as workers at all.

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