Social Security Schemes for Migrant Laborers: A Study of Labor Migrants Working in Jammu Region

Abstract

The present paper gives a detailed account on the interventions made by the Government in the form of social security schemes for the welfare of the labor migrants working in Jammu. It focusses primarily on the number of labor migrants who avail social security schemes provided by Government and factors responsible for the same. Social security schemes can play a very significant role in the welfare of the labor migrants as they come for their benefit at very affordable costs involved. A huge number of Indian Population is working as unskilled labor, this population moves from one place to another in search of better work opportunities and for this group social security in the form of various schemes is very important to be provided by the Government. This paper analyses the same in the Jammu region of Jammu& Kashmir state