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Examine the process of formalisation of informal sector to safeguard the interests of marginalised sections of the society.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India's formalisation drive is, in practice, a registration drive. The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) under Arjun Sengupta (2007) established that over nine-tenths of Indian workers are unorganised and that the organised sector was itself informalising. Formalisation is the state's answer; whether it reaches the marginalised is the claim to test.

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  • The instruments of the process
  • Formalising the enterprise is not formalising the worker
  • Whom the process still misses
  • Conclusion

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