Nearly 47% out of Maharashtra’s total employed population, which is dependent on agriculture, fisheries and forestry as an economic activity, earns only Rs 100 per day on an average.
The data is in sheer contradiction with the earnings of 1.36% of the employed population from Information and Communication sector in the state, which on an average earns Rs. 833 per day, higher than any other occupation.
This data computed from National Sample Survey 68th Round Unit Records, is published in a theme paper presented on Wednesday by Professor Bino Paul G D of School of Management and Labour Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) here at a seminar on Informal Employment in Maharashtra.
The paper revealed that out of the estimated employment of around 4.14 crores, nearly 88% are employed informal, which means they do not any of social security entitlements such as provident fund (PF), pension, gratuity and maternal benefits etc.
It also throws light on the existing gender disparity with respect to domestic duties. Out of the total labour force (employed and unemployed) in the State, around 1,57,510 females ‘attended domestic duties only’ per 1000 males.
Interestingly, the Scheduled Tribe (ST) population in the State is figured lowest in the ‘Regular Salaried’ category with only 14.4% of the total jobs and is largest in ‘Casual Wage Labour’ with around 50.9% workforce involved in it.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the possible amendments in the labour laws by his government were aimed at bringing the informal sector in to the labour market. “We need to look at the labour laws with new perspective, which does not mean we will work in favour of industries,” he said.
