Social security benefits are a distinct part of the social policy of Government of India. Being a welfare state, India has a special social security mechanism for the workers employed in different industries and sugar industry is no exception. All the social security legislations are applicable on sugar industry except the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 as it not applicable on seasonal industries like sugar industry. Considering the significance of social security benefits for the socio-economic development of the country, the present paper attempts to examine the current state of social security measures as perceived by the workers. With the help of a structured questionnaire data was collected from a sample of 490 workers (280 from co-operative sugar mills and 210 from private sugar mills of Punjab) drawn using referral sampling method based upon proportional representation of total population. The study concluded that co-operative and private sugar mills differ significantly from each other on maximum parameters of social security benefits. Most of workers of the co-operative sugar mill perceived social security measures to be more simple, useful, satisfactory and sufficient in comparison to the private sugar mill workers.