Shri Mahila SEWA Sahakari Bank Limited

Self employed workers are those who earn a living through their own small business or through selling their own labour. These are workers who have no fixed employee-employer relationship and depend on their own labour for survival. They are poor illiterate and vulnerable. They barely have any assets or working capital. But they are extremely economically active contributing very significantly to the economy and society with their labour. This sector of the economy is called the unorganised sector. There are four types of self-employed or unorganised sector workers. Hawkers vendors and small business women selling vegetable fruit fish eggs and other food items household goods and clothes. Home-based workers like Weavers Potters Bidi and Agarbatti workers Papad Rollers ready-made garment workers women who process agricultural products and artisans. Manual labourers & service providers like agricultural labourers construction workers contract labourers handcart pullers head-loaders domestic workers and laundry workers. Producers. 92% of all workers in India are in the unorganized sector. 96% of all women workers are in the unorganized sector. A group of such self employed women first formed their own organisation in 1972 when the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) was registered as a trade union in Gujarat with the main objective of \strengthening its members' bargaining power to improve income