First-ever survey on drivers, helps, cooks flagged off

Domestic workers are currently a vulnerable segment of labour

Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday flagged off the fieldwork of All India Survey on Domestic Workers and unveiled its instruction manual. It will cover 742 districts in the country.

"This survey will cover a database of five and a half lakh households across the country and cover all types of domestic services like cook, driver, housekeeping, tutors [for children], watchman etc. This evidence-based study will help the government in policy-making for this segment of workers," Yadav said, addressing at the launch of fieldwork of the survey.

Rapid urbanisation due to expansion would lead to migration of workers and a rise in the number of domestic workers, he added. According to the latest data on the e-Shram portal, around 8.8 per cent of the registered 8.56 crore informal sector workers fall in the category of domestic workers.

Labour Secretary Sunil Barthwal said domestic workers are the third-largest category of workers after agriculture and construction However, there is a dearth of data on their prevailing employment conditions.

742
No. of districts to be covered under the survey

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