-The Hindu Jan Breman takes a long view of the changes he’s seen in India over half a century. Perhaps no other scholar in the social sciences has studied India’s poor and its informal economy as intensively as Jan Breman. The sheer temporal span of his research is mind-boggling. He began his study in south Gujarat 15 years after India’s Independence — in 1962. And he was in south Gujarat in...
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Ministry moots National Social Security Authority -Somesh Jha
-The Hindu The Labour Ministry has mooted the idea of forming a National Social Security Authority, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a separate Social Security Department within the ministry to provide social security to the entire population in a bid to prop up the government’s pro-worker credentials, according to a concept note reviewed by The Hindu. The authority may have all the ministers and secretaries of all ministries dealing with...
More »Recycling the bin -Kankana Das
-Down to Earth Several initiatives are demonstrating how the informal e-waste recycling sector can be formalised Savita Devi (name changed), a municipal solid waste worker in Ahmedabad city, used to earn Rs 1,500 per month. When she joined an initiative of GIZ India in 2012, where she was trained to collect e-waste, her income rose to Rs 2,500 per month. “We are now able to hire private tutors to educate our children,”...
More »Misguided emphasis on labour reforms -SP Singh & Amit K Giri
-The Hindu Business Line Going by the experience worldwide, it is unlikely to generate jobs in the Formal sector Changes in land and labour laws are the two most important components of the second generation of economic reforms. Since early 1990, a slew of economic reforms have been initiated in almost all sectors. However, the governments in power from 1990 through 2014 did not introduce radical changes in the prevailing land and...
More »Labour Ministry to trim cos' EPFO coverage threshold to 10 workers
-PTI At present, it is mandatory for firms with 20 or more workers to subscribe to social security schemes New Delhi: In a bid to provide social security to additional 50 lakh workers under retirement fund body EPFO, the Labour Ministry has decided to halve the threshold for coverage of firms to 10 workers through an executive order. At present, it is mandatory under the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act for...
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