Govt to ensure welfare of unorganized sector
The government on Friday said it will introduce a Bill to ensure the welfare of the workforce in the unorganised sector in the current session of Parliament.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday said it will introduce a Bill to ensure the welfare of the workforce in the unorganised sector in the current session of Parliament.
"We are bringing this Bill (on the unorganised sector) in the current session of the Parliament," Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes told the Lok Sabha while replying to a discussion on the Agriculture Workers Welfare Bill, 2005 introduced by Hannan Mollah (CPI-M).
He said the Group of Ministers (GoM) is working on the Bill and would seek the Union Cabinet's nod on its recommendations, he said.
The Minister said that a sample survey has revealed that agricultural workers constituted 60 per cent of the workforce in the unorganised sector and there was no uniform law in the country to ensure their welfare and they remain a deprived lot.
"The UPA government is committed to the welfare of the the unorganised labour sector," Fernandes said and pointed out that the National Commission of Enterprises too is working a Bill in this connection and the government would deliberate on its report after receiving the same.
The Minister said the UPA government was committed to fructify the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) and reminded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already reiterated his desire to bring a Bill for ensuring the welfare of the unorganised workforce.
Recalling a suggestion by a member on mitigating the plight of the workers in the construction sector, Fernandes said the states have not been forthcoming to do the needful to implement the provisions of a legislation enacted earlier in this connection.
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