Comments
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a number of initiatives on labour reforms and ease of doing business, on Thursday.
He dedicated schemes such as portability through a universal account number (UAN) for Employees’ Provident Fund subscribers, a single-window portal to enable doing business, and a labour inspection scheme in the Central sphere. He said all these schemes were already in place and it was only after their implementation that he was launching them formally.
“We need to appreciate labour issues through the perspective of the labourers, so that these can be understood and resolved with compassion,” Modi said, while launching the new initiatives under the ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram’.
Inspector Raj The Prime Minister said the Government must trust its citizens, and a big step had been taken in this direction by allowing self-certification of documents by employers.
The portal for employers will allow them to submit a single self-certified return and be in compliance with 16 labour laws. Labour inspection, too, will become transparent as there will be random selection of units for this purpose, ending harassment or the ‘Inspector Raj.’
An inspector will have to upload his report within 72 hours, failing which disciplinary action would be taken.
“Ease of business is the first and foremost requirement if ‘Make in India’ has to be made successful,” he added.
Comments
COMMENT NOW
Comments
Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.
We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.