• They build our homes but
    have none of their own

    We work with construction workers to help them get their basic entitlements; education, health care, legal aid, pension, civic amenities, housing

  • Did you know? … Construction workers are
    often overlooked, despite laws guaranteeing
    them basic rights

    NIRMANA steps in to ensure implementation of the Building and Other Construction
    Workers Act across India, by periodically highlighting violations to the Supreme Court

  • Closing the gender gap in the
    construction sector

    Mechanisation has taken away the livelihoods of women construction
    workers who largely perform unskilled and manual tasks.
    NIRMANA empowers women workers through skill upgradation
    training programs

  • Are we concerned about
    those who work in our homes,
    so that we can lead hassle free lives?

    Often those working to cook, clean and manage our homes come from the most marginalised
    communities and remotest areas. They bear the burden of keeping
    their own families clothed and fed. NIRMANA provides these domestic worker communities;
    training, mentoring and counselling to secure more dignified livelihoods

  • We are fighting tirelessly for
    domestic workers to have the same
    rights as all of us?

    NIRMANA is advocating for a central legislation
    to provide for regulation to improve working conditions of domestic
    workers and guarantee them social security

Welcome to NIRMANA


NIRMANA is a non-profit NGO registered as a Society. For the last three decades, NIRMANA has been rooted in its ideology to ensure citizen and basic human rights of poor, working and unorganized labour.


NIRMANA is established under the Societies Registration Act. At the core of NIRMANA’s philosophy is the creation of a system of governance which guarantees India’s unorganised sector its basic Fundamental Rights and Social Security. NIRMANA engages with any or every stakeholder; people’ representatives, government departments, civil society organisations, social movements, academicians to empower informal sector workers to secure dignified livelihoods



   

India’s Workforce in Numbers


Construction and Domestic Workers are India’s Unorganised Sector Workforce


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Estimated 556 million workers

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92% in the unorganised sector

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Unorganised Sector responsible for over 60% of GDP

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million construction workers in India

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domestic workers in Delhi alone

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95% of domestic workers are women and girls