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State Labour Ministers' meet soon
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Aug. 23
The Labour Ministry will soon convene a meeting of the State Labour Ministers. The meeting would be preceded by interactions with trade union leaders with the Ministry, the Minister of State for Labour, Mr Chandrasekhar Sahu said on Wednesday.
The move follows the Prime Minister's high-level interaction with the labour leaders last week.
For the long pending comprehensive legislation for social security for the unorganised sector, the Minister said that a Group of Ministers has been formed and a committee of secretaries set up to go into the issue.
Mr Sahu was responding to a calling attention motion moved by the AITUC General Secretary and CPI leader, Mr Gurudas Dasgupta.
Members from Left parties said that they were dissatisfied with the Minister's response to pointed queries on Labour welfare raised by them.
He said that the increase of wage ceiling from Rs 7,500 to Rs 10,000 per month for coverage under the ESI Act is under Government consideration.
He said that the Government has also decided to roll out Business Process re-engineering (BPR) project in pilot centres, which would reduce time between the receipt of a claim under EPF and issue of a cheque to two to three days. He said EPFO has embarked upon a programme of allotting a unique, permanent, identity number called the Social Security Number to all EPF members.
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