Schemes for Unorganised Workers

The Government is implementing various  schemes providing for social security to the workers in the unorganized sector. A Statement indicating allocation and expenditure under some of the schemes under schedule-I of the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008 is as under:

(Rs. in crores)

S. No	Scheme	Allocation			Expenditure
		2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
1.	(i) Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme  providing for old age pension to BPL family at the age of 65 yrs. (ii) National Family Benefit Scheme  assistance to destitute bread earners.	2489.61*	2889.73*	45000*	1968.27*	3121.93*	4055.82*
2.	Janani Suraksha Yojana for safe motherhood.	135.51	250.00	1281.47	258.32	880.17	1241.33
3.	Handloom Weavers’ comprehensive Welfare Schemes providing for health insurance and life & disability cover to  handloom weavers.	40	115.60	124.00	40	115.58	123.92
4.	Handicraft Artisans’  comprehensive Welfare Schemes providing for health insurance and life & disability cover to artisans.	5.60	80.08	83.91	5.01	76.08	83.91
5.	National Scheme for welfare of Fisherman and Training & Extension providing housing assistance, insurance and training.	23.81**	21.38**	25.00**	7.51	6.38	13.17
6.	Janashree Bima Yojana providing for life and accidental cover to BPL and marginally above BPL persons.	500***			132.79	2.04.50	267.13
7.	Aam Admi Bima Yojana providing for life and accidental cover to landless rural household	-	1000***	500*** (scholarship fund)		44.81	43.53 (includes scholarship)
8.	Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana providing for smart card based cashless health insurance cover to BPL families in unorganigsed sector.  The scheme became operational from 01.04.2008	-	-	250	-	-	101.65
* includes five components of National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)  viz. Indira Gandhi Old Age Pension Scheme, National Family Benefit Scheme, Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme,  Indira Gandhi Disability Pension Scheme, and Annapurna. ** This is combined allocation for all four components i.e. Development of Model Fishermen Villages, Group Accident Insurance, Saving-cum- Relief an Training-cum-Extension ***This is a corpus fund