More needs to be done for informal sector workers: Niti VC

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Thursday said India's informal sector is too large and more needs to be done for workers employed in the segment, including giving them social security cover.

"We have too large informal sector (93 per cent of our workforce) in our economy where workers have no social security.

"Time has come to do much more (for informal sector workers) than signing ILO treaties," he said at an event organised by Bennett University's Times School of Media.

Citing the recent example of thousands of migrant workers trying to rush back home after the imposition of the coronavirus lockdown, Kumar said, "Otherwise, we won't be able to control migrant labour... which happened recently...Social security is crucial for all of us."