Social Security in India: The Long Lane Treaded and the Longer Road Ahead Towards Universalization

Kannan K P and Vijayamohanan Pillai N.

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Abstract: This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives at the all India level. Based on the findings of the review, we visualize a road map to a more comprehensive and participatory initiatives in provision of social security by the state, while stressing the role of the civil society, non-governmental organizations and mass organizations. It is also attempted to categorize the on-going social security schemes according to the definitional framework of our study, that is, in terms of the definitional division of social security into basic and contingent social security.

Keywords: Social security; India; poverty; development; contingency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 H55 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06
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