Matters relating to Social Security are listed in the Directive Principles of State Policy and the subjects in the Concurrent List. The following social security issues are mentioned in the Concurrent List (List III in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India) –
Item No. 23: Social Security and insurance, employment and unemployment.
Item No. 24: Welfare of Labour including conditions of work, provident funds, employers’ liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pension and maternity benefits.
Article 41 Right to work, to education and to public assistance in certain cases
The State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement, and in other cases of undeserved want.
Article 42 Provision for just and humane conditions of work and maternity relief
The State shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief.
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1 | The Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952(Download 309.74 KB) (04.03.1952) | Download(0.30 MB) |
2 | Amendment to the Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952(Download 1.22 KB) | Download(1.22 MB) |
3 | The Provident Funds Act, 1925 (Download 4.21 MB)(01.08.2011) | Download(4.21 MB) |
4 | The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (Download 353.53 KB)(19.04.1948) | Download(0.35 MB) |
5 | The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (Download 158.09 KB)(21st August, 1972) | Download(0.15 MB) |
6 | The Employees Compensation Act, 1923 (Download 450.16 KB) | Download(0.44 MB) |
7 | The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (Download 133.92 KB)(12.12.1961) | Download(0.13 MB) |
8 | Maternity Benefit Amendment Act,2017 (Download 187.66 KB)(28.03.2017) | Download(0.18 MB) |
9 | Rule 29(2) of ESI Central Rules, 1950 substituting Rs. 5 Lacs by Rs 5Cr.(Download 1.65 MB)(17.03.2018) | Download(1.65 MB) |