Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, The Government of NCT of Delhi, and The International Labour Organization - Launch of the Skill Development Initiative for Domestic Workers/Household Assistant

Objectives

Domestic work is an important source of employment in the Delhi/Noida area, as it is in other urban areas of India. It is an important source of regular paid employment in particular for women in the unorganized sector and it offers migrant workers, who have limited education and training, an easy entry into the labour market.

Further information

• Background note (pdf - 13 kb).
• Press Release (pdf - 26 kb).
• Press clippings - English (pdf - 517 kb).
• Press clippings - Hindi (pdf - 293 kb)