Beedi manufacturing is a traditional agro-forest based industry in India, highly labor intensive and predominantly unorganized. The beedi industry is one of the largest employers of workers in India, after agriculture, handloom and construction. However, the estimates of the numbers of beedi workers engaged in this industry vary depending on who is making the estimates.. The beedi rolling is generally done by poor households in backward areas where the workers have usually no other means of sustainable employment. Although beedi rolling began in the factory sector (in early twentieth century),over the last three decades, the beedi manufactures have increasingly shifted the work from factories into the households. This paper is an attempt to understand the various social welfare schemes applicable to beedi workers at Nizamabad district.