Govt took unprecedented measure for labour welfare & employment era throughout Covid-19 pandemic: Labour and Employment Minister

Govt took unprecedented measure for labour welfare & employment era throughout Covid-19 pandemic: Labour and Employment Minister

Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar right now stated that  “plenty of unprecedented steps have been taken by the Union Authorities for labour welfare and employment  together with for migrant employees throughout India throughout COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Elaborating it he stated, Labour is within the concurrent listing and subsequently, each State and Central Governments can legislate on the problems.  Additional, a lot of the Central Labour Acts together with the Migrant Labour Act is being carried out completely by the State Authorities.

 

As per the provisions of the Migrant Labour Act, the registration of the migrant employees is to be carried out by the respective State Governments and the info needs to be maintained by the State Governments.  Nevertheless, within the unprecedented state of affairs of COVID-19, Ministry of Labour & Employment took the initiatives to gather the info of migrant employees who’re going to their Residence States throughout lockdown.  On the idea of knowledge collected from numerous State Governments, round one crore migrant employees have gone again to their supply State throughout COVID-19.

 

Labour Minister additional added that Varied initiatives taken for the welfare of Migrant Employees throughout lockdown.

 

Instantly after the lockdown, instructions had been despatched from Ministry of Labour & Employment to all of the State Governments/UTs instructing them to offer monetary help to development employees from Constructing & Different Development Employees’ Cess Fund.  It’s estimated that the best proportion of migrant employees are development employees. 

 

Until date, about two crore migrant employees have been supplied Rs. 5000.00 crores instantly of their financial institution accounts from Constructing & Different Development Employees’ Cess Fund being maintained by numerous States.

 

With the intention to resolve the grievances of migrant employees throughout lockdown, Ministry of Labour & Employment had arrange 20 Management Rooms all around the nation. 

 

Throughout lockdown, greater than 15000 complaints of the employees had been resolved via these Management Rooms and because of the intervention of Ministry of Labour & Employment greater than two lakh employees had been paid their due wages amounting to about Rs. 295 crores.

 

After the lockdown, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana with a monetary bundle of Rs. 1.7 lakh crore was launched to assist poor, needy and unorganised sector employees of the nation. 

 

Below this bundle, 80.00 crore folks have been supplied 5 Kg. Wheat/Rice and 1 Kg. pulses.  Freed from value meals grains will now be supplied upto November, 2020 to all of the beneficiaries.  Goal of the Authorities is to make sure that nobody is with out meals throughout this pandemic and difficult time.

 

Per day wages below MGNAREGA have been enhanced from Rs. 182 to Rs. 202.

 

Authorities has additionally introduced the measures to strengthen Infrastructure Logistics, Capability Constructing, Governance and Administrative Reforms for Agriculture, Fisheries and Meals Processing Sectors.

 

Gangwar additional knowledgeable that Authorities of India has launched PM SVANidhi Scheme to facilitate collateral free working capital mortgage upto Rs.10,000/- of one-year tenure, to roughly, 50 lakh avenue distributors, to renew their companies.

 

With the intention to facilitate employment of migrant employees who’ve gone again to their Residence State, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan has been initiated in 116 districts in Mission Mode.  Below this marketing campaign, rural infrastructure can be constructed with involvement of those migrant employees and about Rs. 50,000/- crores can be spent for this goal. 

 

In an identical method, many tasks involving migrant employees have been initiated for constructing of Roads, Highways and so forth. by the Transport Ministry with a view to facilitate employment of migrant employees.

 

20 lakh crore monetary bundle below Aatm Nirbhar Bharat has been launched particularly to create employment alternatives, for migrant employees, employees of unorganized sector, strengthening of MSME Sector and selling rural economic system.  It contains plethora of initiatives for all these sectors.

 

With the intention to present minimal monetary help to the employees via their EPF Account, Ministry of Labour & Employment below Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana has permitted all of the EPF members to withdraw 75% of their whole provident fund deposited of their EPF Account.  Until date, about Rs. 39,000/- crore have been withdrawn by the member of EPFO.

 

With the intention to facilitate migrant employees who’re returning again to the Vacation spot State for work, Ministry of Labour & Employment has issued Advisory Tips for all of the State Governments/UTs on 27th July, 2020.  Below thes,e pointers, States/UTs have been directed to appoint a State Stage Nodal Officer to coordinate the implementation of assorted measures for the welfare of migrant employees who’re coming again for employment. 

 

Additional, the State of Origin and Vacation spot State will even coordinate for screening and testing of migrant employees as per the protocol devised by the Ministry of Well being & Household Welfare.  States have additionally been directed to organize a correct knowledge base of migrant employees for his or her simple identification and welfare measures amongst them.  This knowledge would additionally facilitate in enrolling them to numerous Social Safety Schemes of Authorities of India.