SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
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India, being a Welfare State, has taken upon itself the responsibilities of extending various benefits of Social Security and Social Assistance to its citizens. The Social Security legislations in India derive their strength and spirit from the Directive Principles of the State Policy as contained in the Constitution of India.
The Constitution of India recognizes Social Security as integral part of Fundamental Rights. It requires that the State should strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting, as effectively as it may, a social order in which justice social, economic and political shall inform all the institutions of national life. The Constitution of India requires that the State should within the limits of its economic capacity make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in case of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.
Further, the Constitution of India states that the State should make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief. It requires the State should raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and improvement of public health as among its primary duties.
The obligations cast on the State in the above to constitute Social Security.
In India, out of an estimated work force of 91 percent all should be having the benefit of formal Social Security protection including the workers who are in the unorganised sector. Several and successive attempts have been made in the past to address the multifarious problems faced by the workers in the unorganised sector through legislative as well as programme oriented measures. Even though these measures have not succeeded in achieving the desired object partly on account of the ignorance, illiteracy and lack of unionisation of workers on the one hand and the resource constraints of the State on the other, some of the programmes have provided a good setting through which the hopes and expectation of the workers in the unorganised sector have been considerably aroused.
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