Ministry of labour and Employment, central government will issue Unorganized Workers identification Number (UWIN) to safeguard the interest of workers and to get them benefited to the various schemes of the government. Besides, the government will name the Employment Exchanges as National Career Council Centers (NCCC) which will be equipped with modern IT gadgets and will provide hob to those enrolled at the exchange.
The same was stated by Union minister of labour and Employment (independent charge), Bandaru Dattatreya while interacting with the newsmen after day long session with state labour ministers at Yojna Bhawan on Monday.
In the regional conference, state labour ministers from Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and Haryana along with senior officials of labourer department took part in the meeting. This is first meeting convened to address the problems of the labourers in the country by simplifying the labour laws and synchronizing it. Dattatreya thanked the participants.
Giving details of items discussed in the meeting, Dattatreya said the UP government had showed interest in reforming the exiting laws which are archaic and needed an overhauling. He said 100 NCCC were to be opened in the country to cater to the need of unemployed youths of out country. He added that the UP government had opened two NCCC in lucknow and Gaziabad.
Dattatreya said he had given nod to UP government proposal to open a 100 bed hospital in Kanpur. “Kanpur had accolade of being an industrial hub in the past and labourers there need special attention in this way. The central government is concerned with pitfall in wage systems and plight of the labourers,’ he said.
He said PM Narendra Modi was aimed to bring transparency and accountability as these are the tools to eradicate corruption from the society.
“The UWIN and Universal account number to be allotted to the labourers will do away with the flaws and better the working condition. The workers will get information about their Provident Fund and other inquiries even they shift from one state to other,” he hoped.
Dattatreya said the technical labourer force available in India was only 1.9 per cent irrespective of Australia and German where the percentage was high. “We can have all round development only if we improve the score card. It is unfortunate that the percentage of technical labourer did not increase since we got freedom,’ he said.
The Union minister said even skilled labourers were getting low ages. “Most of the time it happens that employers fell short of work force or workers did not get work of their choice. There were 232 ventures in which huge number of job are available but the job seekers had no information of this. We will streamline this by way of synchronization and providing updated information about the same,’ he said.
He said to address this aspect the government will start Samsuvidha Patal, a platform that provide all the information related to the jobs. “The centre government was dedicated to safeguard the interest of the workers and do needful for their welfare. We will protect their interest come what may,’ he reiterated the NDA government.
He also spoke at length about the age system, labour laws, and flaws in the exiting labour laws and said the government will bring a bill restraining child labourership and forcing labourer under 18 years of age in hazardous job in the next parliament session.