The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act was enacted by Parliament in:

The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act was enacted in 2008 to provide social security and welfare to workers in the unorganised sector.

Who are unorganised workers:

• They include home-based workers, self-employed workers and wage workers in the unorganised sector, and workers in the organised sector who are not covered by major social security laws.
• Examples: agricultural labourers, construction workers, street vendors, domestic workers, rickshaw pullers and beedi workers.
• More than 90 percent of India's workforce is estimated to be in the informal sector.

Main features of the Act:

• The Central Government must frame schemes for unorganised workers on matters such as life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits and old-age protection.
• State governments must frame schemes on provident fund, employment injury benefits, housing, education of children, skill upgrading and funeral assistance.
• It provided for a National Social Security Board, chaired by the Union Labour Minister, to recommend schemes.
• It provided for State Social Security Boards.
• It provided for the registration of unorganised workers aged 14 years and above, who would be given an identity card.

Schemes listed in the Act:

• Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme.
• National Family Benefit Scheme.
• Janani Suraksha Yojana.
• Aam Admi Bima Yojana.
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

Later developments:

• The Code on Social Security, 2020, one of the four labour codes, subsumed this Act along with eight other social security laws.
• The e-Shram portal was launched in August 2021 to create a national database of unorganised workers, linked with Aadhaar.
• The Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM), launched in 2019, gives a pension of Rs 3,000 per month after the age of 60 to eligible unorganised workers.

Why not the other options?

• ✗2003, 2011 and 2014 are not the years of this Act.