Hn_Ani_Delhi_Sumitha_Dawra_On_New_Labour_Code_19-36-57

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1/15/2025

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00:00So, today, we organized a very meaningful conference with industry members of CEI.

00:29And more than 150 industry establishments participated on the future of work.

00:37And as we see, the global job landscape is undergoing a change due to various factors,

00:44economic factors, geopolitics, emerging technologies, and so on.

00:48Similarly, in India, we are facing opportunities and challenges as well due to the changing

00:54economic scenario.

00:56How do we address this and use the opportunities for creating better employability and employment

01:04opportunities for our youth?

01:06So that was the focus of the conversation today.

01:08We had very meaningful presentations from industry on a wide array of sectors, including

01:16green jobs, tourism, hospitality, the healthcare sector, similarly, smart manufacturing, manufacturing

01:24sector, logistics, and so on.

01:28We were able to see how presently the jobs are being created, what is the potential for

01:34creating more jobs in these sectors, especially with emerging technology, how to have a more

01:40digitally prepared workforce in the country, and integrating the efforts of different stakeholders,

01:48such as from the education, skill, and industry sector, how we can go ahead towards aligning

01:56the demand for skilled labor with the supply of labor.

02:02So basically, these were our discussions, and a lot of recommendations have come to

02:06us.

02:07We will be going ahead, working on these recommendations, coordinating with different stakeholder ministries,

02:13and taking all the recommendations forward.

02:17Madam, first off, something on the labor code, March has also been given as a deadline.

02:26Also, there is a little bit of divisiveness between states and the Centre, if you could

02:31talk a little bit about that.

02:33See, as you are aware, we have been having regional meetings with all the states and

02:37union territories in the last couple of months, and we very closely examined the quality of

02:42the draft rules pre-published by the states, and we have been working with the states on

02:47two things.

02:48Number one, how to harmonize and improve the quality of the draft rules, where we see any

02:53gaps or any deficiencies, or we see that the rules which have been pre-published by the

02:59state are not in the spirit of the labor code.

03:02So we have been working there.

03:03We have achieved very good progress.

03:06Thirty-one, thirty-two states have already harmonized their rules and brought them up

03:10to the qualitative standard of the labor codes, and the rest of the states are also ready

03:17now with the draft rules.

03:18We have clarified some doubts one or two states had, and we are very hopeful that by the end

03:24of this fiscal year, we would have the draft rules of all the states and UTs in consonance

03:30with the labor codes.

03:31Government of India's draft rules were already ready, and we have been reviewing those as well.

03:36At a time when top leaders are saying 90-hour workweek, 70-hour workweek, are trying to

03:41impose in a way on their employees, is it fair and healthy also necessary for the workforce

03:48to reach that kind of target as a country?

03:51But of course, there is also that divisiveness between 10-hour and 12-hour workweek.

03:56What is the Ministry's take?

03:59We are a tripartite ministry, and we work closely with the labor unions and with the industry.

04:06There are well-defined norms for the number of hours of work in a week, as well as for

04:12the number of hours of overtime in a quarter.

04:14There are international conventions on that.

04:17There is a legal position in the state and in the country, and that is what is to be

04:22followed for a more productive labor force.

04:30One of the themes here at CIS Conclave was the future of India's employment.

04:38Which are the key sectors and the trends that we are looking at going forward for the Western Bharat?

04:44You see, in the context of a growing labor force participation rate in the country, and

04:52a declining unemployment rate, also in the context of our demographic dividend, and more

04:58than 64 crore people.

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