{"id":35785,"date":"2018-11-01T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35785"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:15:25","slug":"fairness-and-dignity-in-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fairness-and-dignity-in-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness and dignity in livelihoods:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/A5zCaDusuyI7PDqESObBVI\/Fairness-and-dignity-in-livelihoods.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fairness and dignity in livelihoods<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government must focus on policies that will generate more dignified and sustainable livelihoods than the Indian economy is producing at present.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All surveys of small enterprises in India, who are the largest generators of employment, have revealed that the principal constraints on their growth are obtaining finance, problems of dealing with bureaucracy, and access to markets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They must overcome these constraints and grow their enterprises before they hire more workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While some economists and short-sighted businesspersons are taunting the government to get tough and change labour laws to make it easier for employers to fire their employees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will not create more dignified and better paying livelihoods around the country, which should be the government\u2019s goal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hardline labour reformers insist employers need more flexibility or they will not employ more people.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But opponents of this ideology concede the need for flexibility, but are adamant that workers must be treated fairly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>NITI Ayog&#8217;s report:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A report to improve India\u2019s employment data by NITI Aayog has a diagram of India\u2019s industrial pyramid. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of 69.5% of workers are employed by firms that employ fewer than five workers, and 21.2% by firms employing more than nine workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But only 9.3% of workers are in firms with six to nine workers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the crimp in the shape of the pyramid is when firms are very small, employing much less than 100 persons, where the industrial disputes act does not apply. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggestions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A systems\u2019 analysis reveals that to create conditions for sustainable growth of incomes and jobs, the government should focus on the creation of effective social security systems (including life-long learning and re-skilling systems) rather than wasting its political capital on making it easier for employers to fire workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government must focus on policies that will generate more dignified and sustainable livelihoods than the Indian economy is presently producing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While ensuring employers have the flexibility they need, Indian laws must ensure fair treatment of all workers must be more effective than they are.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Constraints on the formation and growth of small enterprises must be reduced.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social security must be provided in various forms, by skilling and retraining, health insurance, pensions, and other means, to create the conditions required for more fairness with flexibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairness and dignity in livelihoods:\u00a0 Context: The government must focus on policies that will generate more dignified and sustainable livelihoods than the Indian economy is producing at present. 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