LABOUR STATISTICS
- The Labour Bureau, Chandigarh/Shimla is engaged in collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of labour statistics at all-India level on different facets of labour, such as, employment, wages and earnings, strikes and lockouts, absenteeism, labour turnover, labour cost, working and living conditions of workers, etc. both in organized and unorganized sector of industries.
- It also constructs, maintains and publishes Consumer Price Index Numbers for:
- Industrial Workers (Base 2001=100)
- Rural Labourers (Base 1986—87=100)
- Agricultural Labourers (Base 1986-87=100)
- Labour Bureau also compiles Retail Price Indices of 31 essential commodities for both rural and urban centres and Wage Rate Indices for 21 industries.
- It imparts training to price collectors, entrepreneurs or their representatives filing statutory returns under various Labour Act.
- Labour Bureau is conducting quarterly quick employment surveys in the selected sectors to assess the impact of economic slowdown on employment in India since January 2009. Till now, six such surveys have been conducted in the sectors supposed to be badly affected by the slowdown.
- Labour Bureau has initiated conducting of Employment-Unemployment Survey.
- The survey is endeavouring to collect data on Employment and Unemployment indicators which will be an annual activity. The field work of first such survey covering period April 2009 to March 2010 was launched in April, 2010.
LABOUR RESEARCH
- V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA (Uttar Pradesh) is an autonomous body engaged in research pertaining to labour and training of labour administrators, trade unions, public sector managers and government functionaries.
- The Institute has also set up a new centre for forging professional collaboration with major international institutes working in the area of labour.
- Recently, two new centres namely; Centre for North East and Centre for Climate Change and Labour have also been started to have focused attention on the specific issues related to these Centres.
- The Institute has signed MOU with National Institute of Labour Studies, Sri Lanka and Korea Labour Institute.
WORKERS EDUCATION
- The Central Board for Workers Education (CBWE) was established in 1958 by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India to implement the workers education scheme at national, regional and unit/village levels.
- The Board has its headquarters at Nagpur, with a network of 50 Regional and 9 Sub-Regional Directorates spread throughout the country.
- The Board had set up its Indian Institute of Workers Education, an apex training Institute at Mumbai to conduct national level training programmes for the activists of Central Trade Union Organisations/Federations besides in-house training programmes for the Board’s officials.
