Maha Govt Eases Labour Hiring Limit for Contractors

LABOUR REFORM TO BOOST JOBS - Maha Govt Eases Labour Hiring Limit 

In an important reform to boost labour hiring in Maharshtra, the state government has extended the hiring limit for labour contractors to more than 20 labourers without seeking permission from the Labour Commissioner. The move, announced by the state government without much fanfare, now gives the liberty to labour contractors to hire 50 labourers from the earlier 20 without needing to go to the Labour Commissioner for registration and other associated clearances.

“There are around 17 lakh contractual labourers in the state, this move would benefit them as labour contractors used to incur expenditure and time once they had crossed the limit of 20 labourers as then they had to register with the Labour Commissioner. The contractors used to pass on this expenditure on to the companies for providing labour. Now that we have extended the limit from 20 to 50, we believe this would create more jobs.“said a state government official.

Government officials said that there are more than six lakh labourers who would benefit from this as they expect hirings to rise after removal of this process.

Apart from hiking the limit for labour contractors, Maharashtra government also took some important decisions to cut the Mumbai police powers under the Maharashtra Police Act 1951.

Faced with a number of complaints from Hoteliers and Eatery establishment about the time-consuming and corruption-prone process of getting a Police permission to start a eatery, bar, liquor shop (permit rooms) lodging rooms, the state has now decided that no police permission would be needed to start such establishments henceforth.

“Even starting a lodging ro om, or constructing swimming pools, required police permission, this involved unnecessary delays and paper work. The actual job of regu ation comes under the local municipal body , so the police clearance was just causing work to slow down,“ said a top state government official.

So, from now on if anyone wants to open an eatery he would need permission from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and not from the Police .

Under the `Ease of doing Business' initiative, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been doing a review of the several archaic regulations that the state believes were hindering development, government officials said more such reforms are in the pipe line.

Credit :- Economics Time & Times of India