OUWSS Board

Constitution of Board

Odisha Unorganised Workers' Social security Board has been constituted on 22.12.2011 with an objective to monitor the activities of registration of unorganised workers as beneficiaries and extension of social security benefits to them. It has been reconstituted on 14.08.2019.

Nodal Department: (Labour & ESI Department, Odisha)

• Chairperson - Honourable Minister, L & ESI, Odisha  
• Member Secretary - Principal Secretary, Labour & ESI Department, Odisha 
• Chief Executive Officer - Labour Commissioner, Odisha

Beneficiary: (Unorganised workers of the State)

In the 1st phase, unorganised workers belonging  to the categories of Street Vendors, Small Traders, Domestic Workers, Rickshaw pullers, Auto Drivers, Cobblers, Agricultural workers, Forest Workers, Newspaper  Hawkers and Safai Karmacharis are being registered under the Board.

Implementation:

 (Registration of unorganized workers and extension of social security benefit)

District Labour Officers, Assistant Labour Officers and Rural Labour Inspectors have been declared as Registering Officer for the purpose of registration of unorganized workers. Presently, the activities of the Board are carried out from the budgetary allocation of the State Government.