Table 1.3

Table 2.3 : Employment  in   Indian   Railways  includes all  ranks as  on  31st   March  each   year  on  open line  and construction on all zonal Railways and in the office of Railway Board and its attached   and subordinate offices including Railway Protection Special Force but excluding casual labour.

                  Employment in Department of Posts and Telecommunication relates to gazetted, non-gazetted  and  extra  Departmental  Staff  as on  31st  March.

                In respect of employment in Insurance the information has been furnished by the General Insurance Public Sector Association of India and Life Insurance Corporation. 

                The information on banks relates to employment on Scheduled Banks,  Regional Rural Banks and Reserve Bank of India.

Table 2.4 : In compiling the indices of employment in different sectors, estimates for non-response have been made wherever possible.

3. Employment Services and Training

Tables 3.1 to 3.3 : Statistics are based on the working of Employment Exchanges, University Employment Information Bureaux set up for registering people who are seeking employment and securing employment for them.

Table 3.4 : Statistics are collected from the Industrial Training Institutes/Centres set up for training craftsmen under the Craftsmen Training Scheme of the DGE&T, Ministry of Labour. Apprenticeship Training is also imparted to apprentices in different designated trades and specified industries under the Apprentices Act, 1961.

Table 3.5 : The Directorate General Factory Advice Service and Labour Institutes conducts one year Diploma Course in Industrial Safety at four labour Institutes for Safety Officers and 3 months course of Associate Fellow of Industrial Health at Central Labour Institute, Mumbai and RLI Kolkata for Medical Officers. Besides this,  it also conducts regularly training programmes on industrial safety, hygiene, productivity, staff training and other related disciplines at the four  Labour Institutes and Dock Safety Inspectorates on requests from establishments.

Table 3.6 : The Central Board for Workers, Education (CBWE) has a network of Regional and Sub-Regional Directorates to undertake Workers Education Programmes at regional and unit/village level for workers in the organised, unorganised, rural, small scale and informal sectors. The Indian Institute of Workers Education, Mumbai an apex-training institute conducts training programs for the activists of Central Trade Union Organizations and National Federations besides the training programmes for the Board’s officers / officials. The Board also conducts Rural Awareness Camps being attended by landless labour, tribal labour etc. The Board provides grants in aid to registered Trade Unions and other institutions for conducting their own Worker’s Programmes.

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4. Wages and Earnings

Table 4.1 & 4.2 : The statistics of earnings in coal mines relate to per capita weekly earnings and are available on monthly basis. The earning figures relate to one complete week during the month of December. Index of money earnings is compiled by Laspeyer’s formula.

5. Accidents, Safety and Absenteeism

Table 5.1 : The figures of injuries on Indian Railways are inclusive of those due to movement of trains and railway vehicles connected with railway working and in railway workshops.  A railway employee is considered as injured when, because of that, he is prevented from attending to work during the next  48 hours after the occurrence of the accident.

Table 5.2 : Industrial injuries in mines are classified into fatal and serious injuries.  A serious injury is taken as one  which involves or in all probability will involve, the permanent loss of any part or section of a body or the use of any part or section of a body, or the permanent loss of or incapacity or the fracture of any bone or one or more joints of bones or any phalanges of hand or foot..

Tables 5.3 & 5.4 : A ‘reportable’ accident according to Regulation 91 of the Dock Workers’ (Safety, Health & Welfare) Regulation, 1990 framed under the Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986,   is one which either causes loss  of   life   to  a   dock worker  or   disables   him   from  work on which he is employed for more than 48 hours following the accident and for which notice is to be given to the inspector in a prescribed form by the employers of the dock workers.

                These Acts and Regulations apply to all major ports of India i.e. Mumbai, Kolkata, Cochin, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Kandla, Ennore, Chennai, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Paradip, Tuticorin and Vishakapatanam and are administered by the Directorate General Factory Advice  Service  &  Labour  Institutes,  Ministry of  Labour, Government  of  India through the Dock Safety Inspectorates set up at the eleven ports under the  control of  the  Director General who is the Chief Inspector of Dock Safety. The Inspectorate at Ennore is yet to be set up.

6. Social Security

Table 6.1: The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 applies to  non-seasonal   power   using   factories employing  10   or more   persons and   non-power using factories employing 20  or   more   coverable employees for wages.

                The Act contains an enabling provision under which the ‘appropriate government’ is empowered to extend the provisions of the Act to other classes of establishments – industrial, commercial, agricultural or otherwise.  Under these provisions most of the State Govts. have extended the provisions of the Act to new classes of establishments namely shops, hotels, restaurants, cinemas including preview theatres, road motor transport undertakings and newspaper establishments employing 20 or more coverable employees. The ESI Scheme has also been extended to Educational institutions and some of the States has already issued the notification in this regard. The employees of these factories/ establishments whose wages do not exceed Rs. 10000 per month (w.e.f. 01-10-2006) are covered under the Act.

Table 6.2 : The rate of Provident Fund contributions payable by the employers and the employees under the Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act which was 10% of basic wages,  dearness allowance (including the cash value of any food concession) and retaining allowance (if any) payable by each employee who is a subscriber, has been through an amendment of the Act, raised to 12% of the basic wages, dearness allowance (including the cash value of any food concession) and retaining allowance (if any) payable to each employee who is a subscriber, w.e.f  22.9.1997

            Further, through an ordinance dated 22.9.1997 the Central Government enhanced the rate of contribution from 10% to 12% of the basic wages, dearness allowance (including the cash value of any food concession) and retaining allowance (if any) payable to each employee who is a subscriber.

            Though a notification issue by the Ministry of Labour, Govt. of India, the enhance rate of contribution @ 12% has been applied with effect from 22.9.1997 to all the establishments in 181 specified industries/class of establishments employing 20 or more persons. For the others the rate of contribution remains 10%.

            Under the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952, the ceiling on wages has been enhanced to Rs. 65oo/- for an employee to become a member of the fund.

Tables 6.3 to 6.7 : Labour Welfare funds are created to provide welfare facilities to the workers employed in Mica, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Chrome Ore, Limestone and Dolomite mines, Beedi and Cine Industry.  Welfare Funds have been established under respective enactments. The funds have been created by levy of cess on production or consumption or export of the minerals, production of feature films and manufactured beedis.

Table 6.8 : Every employee in or in connection with Coal Mines, whether employed directly or through contractors, is required to become a member of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme on putting 30 days attendance from the date  he is employed in a Coal Mine irrespective of the quantum of his wages.  The rate of compulsory contribution is 12% of the total emoluments.  Employers are required to contribute an amount equal to the compulsory contribution of the employees.  Members, if  so desire , may make further contributions maximum of 12% as voluntary contribution  in addition to the  compulsory contributions.

The Coal Mines Family Pension Scheme, 1971 has ceased to operate and has been replaced by the new Coal Mines Pension Scheme, 1998 which has come into force with effect from the 31^st day of March, 1998.

The Coal Mines Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme 1976 is under operation.  In this Scheme member is not required to contribute.  Employer of the member contributes 0.5% of his salary as defined under the Scheme.  On death of an employee while in service his / her nominee / survivor receives a maximum of Rs. 10,000/- in a lump sums in addition depending on his P.F. accumulation during last three currency periods.