DIVISION OF

SECTORS ON
BASIS OF
EMPLOYMENT
CONDITIONS

ECONOM
Y

ORGANISED
SECTOR
UNORGANISED
SECTOR

ORGANISED SECTOR
The sector which is registered ,follows Government
rules and regulations,have employees and employers
union is called organised sector . Generally, all
enterprises which are either registered or come under
the purview of any one of the acts like the Indian
Factories Act 1948, Mines and Minerals (Regulation
and Development) Act, 1957, the Company Law, the
Central/State Sales Tax Acts, the Shops and
Establishment Acts of the State governments, are
defined as part of the organised sector. Also included
are all government companies, departmental
enterprises and public sector corporations .

The organised sector offers many provisions to its

employees including assured employment with regular
terms of work . There are a fixed no. of working hours
and the workers are paid overtime on working extra .
They are also subjected to paid holidays , provident fund
, gratuity , medical allowances , pension etc. they should
too have a safe working environment including drinking
water .
Examples of such enterprises are the Reliance Industries
Limited (RIL) , Maruti Suzuki , Hindustan Computers
Limited (HCL) and all public sector enterprises .

UNORGANISED
SECTOR

The unorganised sector consists of all unincorporated

private enterprises owned by individuals or households
engaged in the sale or production of goods and services
operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with
less than ten total workersAmongst the characteristic
features of this sector are ease of entry, smaller scale of
operation, local ownership, uncertain legal status, labour
intensive and operating using lower technology based
methods, flexible pricing, less sophisticated packing,
absence of a brand name, unavailability of good storage
facilities and an effective distribution network, inadequate
access to government schemes, finance and government
aid, lower entry barriers for employees, a higher
proportion of migrants with a lower rate of compensation.

Employees of enterprises belonging to the

unorganised sector have lower job security and poorer
chances of growth, and no leaves and paid holidays ,
they have lower protection against employers
indulging in unfair or illegal practices.
Examples of the Unorganised sector includes
Small shopkeepers , Street vendors , Rural landless
labourers etc.

Protection of Unorganised sector

workers
Many steps can be taken, especially by the govt. these are
1 Construct well/dams which will provide good irrigation to
the fields in agricultural sector
2 Allow credits at a lower rate
3 Construct well-maintained roads which will help in
transportation of goods.This also helps the unemployed people
in service sector
4 Open cold storages
5 Setting up small scale industries in semi-rural areas
6 adequate facility for timely delivery of seeds
7 Implementing many programmes suh as NREGA 2005
8 Creating job oppurtunities in service sector [schools,
tourism, hospitals]
9 Improving/ develpoing technologies .

THANKING YOU
Sarthak Roy

Saswata Bhattacharya

Satadal Singha Roy

Sayantan Ghosh

Shefali Agarwal

Shivam Dutta

Shreyoshi Chatterjee

Shyamashree Chatterjee

Soham Mukherjee