Social security for faster growth
Helping hand There is an urgent need to extend MNREGA to urban workers - Thulasi Kakkat
Helping hand There is an urgent need to extend MNREGA to urban workers - Thulasi Kakkat×
Providing social security to unorganised sector workers will be key to India becoming a global manufacturing hub
The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution envisaged the creation of a social welfare state as resources became available. In post war Europe, the evolution of the social welfare state was reaching completion and this would have shaped the thinking in the Constituent Assembly. The working class movement gained in strength with industrialisation in Europe in the early twentieth century and the provision of social safety was a major goal.