Informal employment consists of all the employment opportunities which are not covered under the formal employment. The informal employment attracts people for various reasons. Uneducated or any other person who could not find their place in the formal employment move towards informal employment. In India the ‘Informal Employment’ is not very common and ‘Unorganised Sector’ is used for the purpose. The term ‘Unorganised Sector’ has been defined in the ‘ The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act’2008’ as an enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers and engaged in the production or sale of goods or providing services of any kind whatsoever, and where the enterprise employs workers, the number of such workers is less than ten.

KEYWORDS: Informal employment, financial inclusion, poor communities