Social Protection Pilot
Overview The central problem of social protection for informal workers in India is portability. Benefits — provident fund, gratuity, health coverage — are tied to stable employment relationships that most informal workers do not have. A construction worker who builds for three contractors in a year, a domestic worker who works in five households simultaneously, a seasonal migrant who returns to agricultural work in the summer: the standard model of contributory social security is designed for none of them. ...