Recognising the urgent need for a comprehensive legal framework to protect and empower India’s home-based workers, the National Working Group on Home-Based Workers has constituted the National Drafting Committee to prepare a rights-based legislative framework for the proposed Home-Based Workers Bill.

    The National Drafting Committee comprises eminent experts in labour administration, law, economics, public policy, social sciences, and social justice. Bringing together former senior government officials, distinguished academicians, legal scholars, labour economists, and development practitioners, the Committee reflects a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience necessary for developing progressive labour legislation.

     The Committee is entrusted with steering an inclusive, consultative, and evidence-based drafting process. Its mandate includes examining existing legal and policy frameworks, reviewing national and international best practices, engaging with workers’ organisations, trade unions, civil society institutions, academic experts, and policymakers, and preparing recommendations for a comprehensive legislative framework that promotes legal recognition, decent work, social protection, fair remuneration, and livelihood security for home-based workers across India.

    The Committee is guided by the constitutional values of social justice, equality, dignity of labour, and inclusive development. Through a transparent and participatory drafting process, it seeks to develop legislation that responds to the lived realities of millions of home-based workers while aligning with national priorities and internationally recognised labour standards.

    The National Drafting Committee reflects a collective commitment to ensuring that home-based workers—particularly women, who constitute the majority of this workforce—receive the legal recognition, institutional support, and social protection essential for securing dignified livelihoods and contributing to India’s inclusive and sustainable economic development.