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Ministry of Labour & Employment
Shri Bhupender Yadav interacts with Human
Resource Heads of Industry from various sectors
Not only there should be higher participation of
women in workforce but more women should be
at positions of decision-making: Shri Bhupender
Yadav
Posted On:
12 JAN 2022 8:46PM by PIB Delhi
In first of its kind, Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Labour and Employment, interacted
with Human Resource Heads of Industry representing various sectors, including from manufacturing,
staffing agency, automobile, construction, hotel industries etc.
The interaction was facilitated by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). Shri Sunil Barthwal,
Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, initiated dialogue and invited comments from
participants on improving service delivery in Employees Provident Fund Organization and
Employees State Insurance Corporation, Work from Home, better utilization of services of National
Career Service Portal and for enhancing women participation in labour force besides others.
Held an engaging interaction with top HR heads of industries across India.
Discussed a range of issues, including enhancing employability and future
skillset of the workforce, increasing productivity, using labour intensive
technologies and increasing women's participation.
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Shri Chandrajeet Banerjee, Director General, CII moderated the interaction with HR Heads of
various organisations and welcomed this initiative of Ministry of Labour & Employment. He
informed that CII is fully aware of its responsibility of generating decent employment and
appreciated steps taken by the Government in addressing the situation of Covid, and continuous
support to the manufacturing sector.
Representatives of various organisations appreciated formulation of four labour codes and requested
for early roll-out. Suggestions given by representatives of industry inter alia included introduction of
guaranteed employment in urban areas, reorient education curriculum to align with the emerging
technologies, use of apprenticeship for employment generation.
Thanking all the participants for their valuable suggestions, Shri Bhupender Yadav assured them of
full cooperation of the Ministry.
“For promoting female labour force participation rate, not only there should be higher participation in
women in workforce but women should be seen at positions of decision-making”, said the Union
Minister.
Shri Yadav also stated that in order to have collaborative approach involving employers and
employees in the last meetings of Central Board of Trustees of EPFO and Corporation of ESI, he has
constituted Committees for improving grievance redressal of 6.5 crore members of EPFO,
strengthening technological interventions, capacity building, effective monitoring of ongoing projects
and enhancing coverage under social security.
Since ESIC caters to medical needs of workers, the Minister informed that it has also been decided to
set up centers for study of occupational diseases, in both the Hospitals at Alwar and Bihta (Patna).
Scheme of free medical check-up for the insured persons in ESIC above the age of 40 years has been
revamped and launched on pilot basis in five hospitals. He further mentioned that to monitor ongoing
construction of hospital projects, a dashboard in ESIC has also been developed.
Shri Yadav, mentioned that evidence-based policy making and last-mile delivery are pillars of good
governance and effective and targeted delivery of services. For this purpose, this Ministry has
launched new surveys for migrant and domestic workers. Further, with the objective to create a
comprehensive database in both for informal and formal sectors, besides an All India Quarterly
Establishments based Employment Survey (AIQEES) for organized sector, an area based area-frame
establishment survey has also been decided for establishments having 9 or less workers.
Results of the two quarterly establishment based employment surveys have been released. The report
of second QES for the period, July to September 2021, highlights that the estimated total
employment in 9 selected sectors is 3.10 crore which is higher by 2 lakh permanent jobs than that
from period, April to June, 2021. The overall percentage of female workers has also registered
increase and stands at 32.1% which is higher than first round of QES.
The Union Minister also mentioned about the success of e-Shram portal which allows self-
registration of workers and maps their occupations in about 400 categories. At present, the capacity
of e-shram portal stands at registration of 45 lakh unorganised sector workers per day which has
increased from about 10 lakh per day, at the time of its launch in August 2021. Already more than 21
crore unorganised sector workers have been registered on e-shram portal. All workers registering on
e-shram portal gets free insurance of Rs. 2 lakh under Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and
each worker gets a downloadable identity card, for which expenditure is borne by Central
Government.
While concluding, the Minister said that such interaction would take place on regular basis with all
stakeholders and sought cooperation of CEOs and HR Heads of the industry in policy making for the
welfare of workers and for creation of decent employment.
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