In a discussion paper, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has suggested creation of new service entities to which most of the statutory compliances, under the labour laws for small and medium enterprises, can be outsourced.
Pensioners, India Inc may get tax breaks in Budget
The exporters are optimistic that the industry will grow by 8-10 per cent and it can improve further if the government helps the industry.
"Confinement is fostering the tension and strain created by security, health, and money worries. And it is increasing isolation for women with violent partners, separating them from the people and resources that can best help them. It's a perfect storm for controlling, violent behaviour behind closed doors," UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in a statement calling the violence against women and girls 'a shadow pandemic'.
The ministry of labour and employment plans to implement social security programmes only for the poorest of the poor in the unorganised sector, to begin with.
'The Modi government is about privatising profits and nationalising losses.'
Wrestler Bajrang Punia pledged to donate his sixth months' salary towards Haryana's COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Ficci also said the new leadership is expected to recognise the industry concerns on land, labour and environment.
One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state governments adopting apprenticeships on a large scale.
This has been done to meet the constitutional obligation that the ministry's size should not exceed 10 per cent of the assembly's strength. The Tamil Nadu assembly has 234 members.
Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan has proclaimed his determination to set Tamil Nadu's fiscal house in order in five years, and Friday will show how he plans to go about it when he rises to present the Stalin government's maiden budget, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The government is likely to take a 'favourable' decision on enhancing the interest rate on Employees Provident Fund and the ministries of labour and finance are holding discussions on how to mobilise resources for it, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday
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