NAILU’s work goes far beyond advocacy — it lives in the streets, worksites, fields, and homes where India’s informal workers spend their lives. Through grassroots organising, legal interventions, awareness campaigns, and policy dialogue, we work every day to bridge the gap between invisible workers and the protection they deserve.

     One of our core focus areas is the cause of Footloose Labourers — the migrant, casual, seasonal, and transient workers who move across districts and states in search of daily wages, carrying no contracts, no safety nets, and no guarantees. From construction sites and brick kilns to agricultural fields and domestic households, these workers sustain India’s economy while remaining excluded from its welfare systems.

   NAILU maps and documents their presence, forms local collectives for collective bargaining, runs mobile legal clinics for wage disputes and accident claims, and advocates for portable entitlements, universal registration, and inclusion in national welfare frameworks like e-Shram and the One Nation One Ration Card scheme. Our pilot campaigns have already helped thousands secure welfare cards, food rations, and rightful compensation — and this is only the beginning.

   Every activity we undertake is driven by a single belief — that no worker should be invisible to the system they help build.