The NCEUS highlighted the complete lack of growth of organized employment during the phase of rapid growth in India since the early 1990s. Virtually all the growth in employment since 1991 has been informal employment. This led the NCEUS to conclude that the growth process had bypassed the majority of the Indian population. To correct this distortion and to re-orient the growth process to serve the needs of the majority of the Indian working population, the NCEUS made many sensible recommendations and urged some relevant legislation. Most of these suggestions were ignored by the government. Instead, the NCEUS was quietly folded up. Even its website has been taken down. Therefore, the NCEUS reports, which were once available on the NCEUS website, are no longer available. Even though these reports are a little dated, they remain important documents of Indian political economy, providing detailed information about the working and livelihood conditions of the majority of the Indian working population. Hence, Sanhati is hosting some of the NCEUS reports so as to be easily available to the interested activist, researcher and public intellectual. sanhati/articles/8325/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:19:00 +0000