In his column “Social security for the unorganised” (January 18) Santosh Mehrotra makes a good case for extending social insurance benefits to the informal labour in the country who at 450-plus million constitute 93 per cent of our workforce but have no powerful backing from the government or the plethora of trade unions across the country.
There is an equally robust case for reviewing their wages, now confined to minimum wages, which is “wage barely sufficient for sustenance of life and providing for some measure of education, medical requirements and amenities”. In actual practice, it keeps the wage earner always at
