ACADEMICIA: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1

Unorganised beedi workers in India-problems, government policies and schemes: A review

1Assistant Professor Department of CommerceDr. P. Dayananda pai & P. Sathish pai Govt, First Grade College, Car Street, Mangalore, India Email id: nagarajullody@gmail.com

2Guest Faculty Department of CommerceGovernment P.U College, Gurupura, Mangalore, India Email id: Mahimaheshvishwakarma@gmail.com.

Online published on 22 February, 2021.

Abstract

The present study is made an attempt to analyze the specific problems faced by the beedi workers and to examine the legislative and policy frame work and Government Schemes for unorganized women beedi workers in India. Beedi rolling is one of the major unorganized sector activities in India, which employs a large number of women. As per the estimation of the India's Ministry of labour majority of them are home based women workers; creating alternative income and employment opportunities for them. For the study purpose, information is gathered from secondary sources such as research articles, websites, e-journals, other published reports and newspapers, etc.

Keywords

Unorganized Beedi Workers, Unorganized sector, Legislative and Policy Framework, Employment Opportunities