Assam: Meeting on labour welfare in Guwahati on Oct 4

Guwahati: A regional meeting of all the Northeastern states on labour welfare will be held on Friday in Guwahati, Assam.

The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is organising the regional meeting where all the states of the Northeast - Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim – will be present.

The meeting will focus on discussions around consensus on labour reforms, eShram-national database of unorganised workers, building and other construction workers, employees’ state insurance corporation and employment generation initiatives, the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment said in a press statement.

The meeting will be chaired by Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Sushri Shobha Karandlaje and will be attended by the ministry’s Secretary Sumita Dawra, besides senior officers of the Central and the state governments, it added.

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Key labour and employment issues, including harmonisation in draft rules framed by the states and union territories and the Central government under labour codes, issues related to employment data collection and sharing, and inputs on the employment linked incentive scheme will be deliberated upon during the meeting, it said.

Other issues like establishment of e-Shram portal as a one-stop solution for easy access to social security benefits for unorganised workers including migrant workers, expansion of coverage of various Central welfare schemes to building and other construction workers and upgradation of employment exchanges, among others will also be discussed during the meeting, it added.

The meeting marks the culmination of an ongoing series of six regional consultations organised by the ministry with the states and union territories which commenced on August 30, 2024, it further said.