Social Protection comprises those measures which aim at preventing, reducing and eliminating economic and social vulnerabilities to poverty and deprivation. The term “social floor” or “social protection floor” has been used to mean a set of basic social rights, services and facilities that a global citizen should enjoy. The vast, informal and heterogeneous characteristics of the workforce in India, with growing in-formalization of employment, on the one hand denotes low levels of social protection and high vulnerability, and on the other, constrains the expansion of social protection, mainly due to the dearth of appropriate institutional arrangements and policy, and due to lack of visibility and voice of such workers. This calls for strategies both to improve the quality of employment and growth and to extend social protection to the unreached.
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