Ministry of Labour & Employment
Casual and
Contract Labourers
Estimated number of contract labourers engaged by licenced
contractors in central sphere all over India including the industrial sector in
the last three years is as under which shows an upward trend:
|
Year
|
No. of contract labour
covered by such licences |
|
2009-10
|
13.73 lakhs
|
|
2010-11
|
14.89 lakhs
|
|
2011-12
|
18.44 lakhs
|
Under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970, both Central and State Governments are the ‘Appropriate Government’. The Contract Labourers are engaged by an Establishment as per the terms of contract and requirement and no centralized data is maintained with respect to number of contract labour deployed in the country industry or sector-wise.
This
information was given by Minister of State for Labour & Employment Shri
Kodikunnil Suresh in the Lok Sabha today in reply to a written
question.
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