Labour Ministry to hold meeting with ILO on employment growth

The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is holding a two-day meeting with International Labour Organisation, ILO by Wednesday in New Delhi for seeking out the way of achieving 3.9 percent employment growth per annum to meet the target of employment for all by 2012.

The delegates of ILO are these days in India and holding the meeting with Labour Ministry for valuating the condition of labours in India and Indian government’s effort to reforming their condition.

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The two-days meeting have been held from Monday to discuss the social security status of labours in India.

From today, ILO will hold the technical consultation with labour and employment ministry for discussing on India’s employment policy and to evolve new national employment strategy to for enhancing the employment growth to achieve the target by 2012.

According to sources, by 2012, there will be nearby 92-millions of unemployed people in India, a tough challenge for the government, but India cannot achieve this target at which India is providing employment to the needy.

“India has enjoyed impressive economic growth for more than a decade....We need to understand why employment is growing so slowly, particularly in the organised sector, and why employment in the informal sectors remains low quality,” said Leyla Tegmo-Reddy, ILO sub-regional director for South Asia.

Describing about the meeting, she said, “The meeting will take a diagnostic approach.”

Ministry has prepared a background report for the meeting that reports, ‘employment-intensive growth does not mandatory need labour-intensive technologies because it can be promoted sector-wise growth as per their nature.’ ‘Women’s contribution is very necessary for higher economic growth.’ added report.

A range of topics will be covered in the meeting, as per ILO officials including economic policies relating to macro-economics and specific sectors, labour market policies, skills development, and enterprise development particularly in micro and small enterprises.

The representatives of workers and employers, academics, Central and state government officials, Planning Commission members, Indian policy makers and Executive Director of the ILO along with other ILO’s members will attend the meeting.