UPA plans social security fund for unorganised sector

New Delhi: The government is thinking of setting up a National Social Security Fund with an initial corpus of Rs. 1,000 crore for workers in the unorganised sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.

"We are also considering the establishment of a National Social Security Fund with an initial corpus of Rs. 1,000 crore for unorganised sector workers," he said in his opening remarks while releasing a report on the government's performance in the first year of its second term.