Introduction
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.
Part IV
Directive Principles of State Policy
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.