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In recent times there has been a significant increase in the number of women domestic workers in India. The domestic service is now accepted as a significant category of livelihood. The steep decline in agrarian produce and livelihood security in rural areas has caused migration of rural people to urban areas. The number of women domestic workers has been continuously growing in the informal sector of urban India. Domestic work has remained unorganized, unrecognized and unrewarding for the domestic workers. The domestic workers are deprived of of minimum wages, healthy work period, safe working conditions and other benefits in the absence of trade unions and state intervention. They experience exploitative situations and multi-faceted abuses. The national and international legal instruments are largely unsuccessful under the existing circumstances.