Labour Min asks ILO Chief to allocate commensurate funds & ILO experts to India
Updated: Sep 12, 2014 04:32:14pm
New Delhi, Sept 12 (KNN) Seeking increased Indian representation at a senior level in the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Narendra Singh Tomar has requested ILO Chief to allocate commensurate resources, both in terms of funds and ILO experts.
He has sought ILO’s, intervention in providing technical assistance to construct a statistical database to capture the nature and composition of India’s informal sector.
Tomar met the Director-General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, on the side-lines of the Labour and Employment Ministerial Conference of G20 nations at Melbourne, Australia yesterday.
Ryder appreciated the initiatives taken by the new Government under the leadership of Narendra Modi and assured of continued technical support from ILO to India’s efforts, Labour Ministry said in a release today.
Driving home the point that Asia-pacific region covers 60 per cent of the global workforce but receives only 10 per cent of resources, Tomar requested ILO Chief to allocate commensurate resources, both in terms of funds and ILO experts.
Re-affirming India’s commitment to ILO’s Decent Work Agenda, Tomar elucidated multi-pronged measures undertaken by Government of India to that end. Chief among these is the pan-India multi-skilling programme, to tap the country’s vast demographic dividend by augmenting youth employability.
Vocational training has undergone complete overhaul, by moving from the conventional trade-based courses, to demand-driven and industry-oriented training, the latter resulting in assured employment for trainees, said the release.
Tomar further informed DG, ILO that the Government is focused on speeding up transition from informal to formal employment, for which it is easing compliance laws for businesses, and reducing paperwork.
Elaborating on a slew of welfare schemes available to all segments of Indian workforce, organized and unorganized, such as Workers’ Social Security Act 2008, Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and many other such schemes, Tomar remarked that convergence and simplification of schemes utilising Information Technology, is the need of the hour.
In the new order, multiple schemes targeting the same section of population will be brought together on a single platform and millions of beneficiaries will avail of combined benefits by swiping a single card, said the release. (KNN/SD)
He has sought ILO’s, intervention in providing technical assistance to construct a statistical database to capture the nature and composition of India’s informal sector.
Tomar met the Director-General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, on the side-lines of the Labour and Employment Ministerial Conference of G20 nations at Melbourne, Australia yesterday.
Ryder appreciated the initiatives taken by the new Government under the leadership of Narendra Modi and assured of continued technical support from ILO to India’s efforts, Labour Ministry said in a release today.
Driving home the point that Asia-pacific region covers 60 per cent of the global workforce but receives only 10 per cent of resources, Tomar requested ILO Chief to allocate commensurate resources, both in terms of funds and ILO experts.
Re-affirming India’s commitment to ILO’s Decent Work Agenda, Tomar elucidated multi-pronged measures undertaken by Government of India to that end. Chief among these is the pan-India multi-skilling programme, to tap the country’s vast demographic dividend by augmenting youth employability.
Vocational training has undergone complete overhaul, by moving from the conventional trade-based courses, to demand-driven and industry-oriented training, the latter resulting in assured employment for trainees, said the release.
Tomar further informed DG, ILO that the Government is focused on speeding up transition from informal to formal employment, for which it is easing compliance laws for businesses, and reducing paperwork.
Elaborating on a slew of welfare schemes available to all segments of Indian workforce, organized and unorganized, such as Workers’ Social Security Act 2008, Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and many other such schemes, Tomar remarked that convergence and simplification of schemes utilising Information Technology, is the need of the hour.
In the new order, multiple schemes targeting the same section of population will be brought together on a single platform and millions of beneficiaries will avail of combined benefits by swiping a single card, said the release. (KNN/SD)
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