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The Labour and Employment Minister Shri K. Chander Shekhar Rao has assured workers that rights and benefits earned by them will not be curtailed in any circumstances. Inaugurating the 40th Session of the Standing Labour Committee here today, Shri Rao said, "We will have to adjust our social protection strategies to contemporary circumstances so that they respond better to changing economic structures which are inclined more towards informal sector." He said that the ways and means are being worked out to provide social protection to 370 million workers in informal sector. The Government is going to set up a Central Unorganized Sector Workers’ Welfare Board. "We look for an economic growth, which is more inclusive", Shri Rao added.
Referring to labour reforms, Shri Rao said that those reforms would be considered which are necessary to harmonize and streamline procedures so as to give freedom and responsibility to enterprises. Favoring a cordial and harmonious labour management relations, the Labour Minister stressed the need for devising an effective and meaningful participation of workers in decision making.
On employment generation, Shri Rao said various measures are being taken to sharpen the skill-base of the workforce. These include fine-tuning of existing vocational and industrial training courses and upgradation of 500 existing Industrial Training Institutions, ITIs into centres of excellence in 5 years.
The Session is being attended by representatives of 8 Central Trade Unions, 5 Employers Organisation, 33 Ministries and Departments of Central Government and all State Governments and Union Territories. The trade unions include BMS, INTUC, CITU, HMS, AITUC, UTUC (Lenin Saraine) UTUC and NFITU and employers group include CIE, AIMO, , CII, FICCI, ASSOCHEM and Laghu Udyog Bhartiya.
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