The Unorganised and Rural sector covers mostly rural labour and urban labour in informal sector. It includes activities carried out by small and family enterprises, partly or wholly with family labour. In this sector wage-paid labour is largely non-unionised due to casual and seasonal nature of employment and scattered location of enterprises. This sector is marked by low incomes, unstable and irregular employment, migration and lack of protection either from legislation or trade unions. The workers in  unorganised sector, are so scattered that the implementation of the Legislation becomes difficult and challenging. There are hardly any unions in this sector who work for the upliftment of these workers. But the contributions made by the unorganised sector to the national income are very substantial as compared to that of the organised sector.

DTNBWED is conducting the training programmes from 1978 for the workers working in unorganized sector and small scale industries with a view to develop awareness about their problems, difficulties and protective labour laws at work place and help them in finding solutions as well as equip them in developing their own organisations. The training programmes are conducted for 01 day duration for various categories of workers working in industries such as handloom, powerloom, Khadi industries, sericulture, coir, beedi, salt workers, rag pickers, cine workers, ship breaking workers etc.

Programmes Conducted in Unorganised and Rural Sectors -