Social Protection Floor In India

Gdp to social protection programs and the spending allocated to each rural household on major centrally sponsored schemes is significant at 40 of the annual rural poverty line in 2004 2005 the poor are not able to reap the full benefits of such large investments.

Social protection floor in india. India s mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme find read and cite. In this direction the ilo recently received a positive response from the government of uttar pradesh the most populous state of india to provide technical support to develop strategies to design extend social security schemes benefits for selected vulnerable groups to enable the government to move towards establishing the social protection. Working through dedicated programmes like aids. The study further examines the existing social protection.

The graph shows protection expenditure as a percentage of gdp for select countries for the latest year available. The ilo has set three major dimension of social protection. Social protection programmes in india can be broadly categorized as i improving living standards of the poor programmatic framework ii targeted social security programmes for the very poor iii social security measures for unorganized informal sector workers and iv social security measures for organized formal sector workers. Definition of social protection expenditures are broadly consistent across.

Based on this analysis a road map for a social protection floor in india is proposed and discussed. Extending the coverage and effectiveness of social security schemes. It outlines the key characteristics of the indian workforce and shows how this both necessitates and poses a challenge for building a social protection floor. Rich and middle income countries spend significantly on social protection percent of gdp spent on social protection in selected countries 2013 2017.

They consist of the dimensions of income security over. This study commissioned by the united nations in india considers the feasibility of a social protection floor for india. Social protection in india. Analysing th possible cost implications of a social protection floor the study discussed the fiscal challenge and issues related to the design and delivery of social security in the indian context.

The administrative capacity of poorer states.