Economic & Nutritional Status of Industrial Workers in Sikandrabad City of Bulandshahr District - A Review Study

Abstract

The increasing rate of marginalisation due to the fast changing globalisation and mechanisation has accelerated the severity of exploitation of unskilled workers, particularly unorganised workers in the industries. There has been an increasing identification of poverty as evidenced by statistics pertaining to the informal industrial sector. Moreover, the nature of the work in the industrial sector is increasingly becoming subcontracting due to the opening up and also to withstand the pressure of labour market demand in the global setting. The increasing tendency of openness makes the illiterate and untrained labourers in the industrial sector more vulnerable to further exploitation. The working and living conditions are revealed to be highly detrimental to workers health. To overcome this situation, the government from time to time has enacted legislations and constituted welfare boards to improve the working and living conditions and wage regulations. But these bodies failed miserably in ensuring the said priorities. It is found that to tide over this situation, they have been introducing their own ways of welfare programs. But these programs in effect are found to be providing only cosmetic face lift to the workers in the industrial sector and are fully outside the ambit of the basic requirements of industrial workers particularly Sikandrabad city.