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Abstract The Indian economy is characterized by the existence of a vast majority of the informal or unorganised sector wherein more than ninety per cent of the total workforce is engaged and only a small fraction of the workforce is working in the organised sector. Unorganised sector is characterised by the informality or casual nature of the work, absence of an adequate social security measure, no defined employers-employees relationship, absence of workers union and collective bargaining, poor living and vaguely defined working conditions, non-applicability of the labour laws, lack of modern training and skills among the workers and many more such characteristics. The population of the elderly is ever increasing in India like many other countries of the world and in the absence of a uniform, comprehensive and adequate social security provisions for them they are forced to work even in the old age to earn some livelihood to sustain themselves. Mostly the elderly who work to earn their livelihood is engaged in the unorganised sector where along with the common issues that characterise the unorganised sector workers they face some additional socio-economic and health related problems that need to be addressed by the policy planners in the country.