Schemes for Identification of Unorganised Sector

The unorganized sector, covers most of the rural labor and a substantial part of urban labor. This includes activities carried out by small and family enterprises, partly or wholly with family labor. In this sector wage-paid labor is largely non-unionised due to casual and seasonal nature of employment and scattered location of enterprises. This sector is marked by low incomes, unstable and irregular employment, and lack of protection either from legislation or trade unions. The unorganized sector uses mainly labor intensive and indigenous technology. The workers in unorganized sector, are so scattered that the implementation of the Legislation is very inadequate and ineffective. There are hardly any unions in this sector to act as watch-dogs. But the contributions made by the unorganized sector to the national income, is very substantial as compared to that of the organized sector. It adds more than 60% to the national income while the contribution of the organized sector is almost half of that depending on the industry.