Mysore/Mysuru: The Labour Department has registered unorganised workers classified under 379 categories for the Rs.2 lakh accident Insurance scheme — Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana — through e-Shram portal. The registration of unorganised workers was done between Aug. 26, 2021 and Mar. 31, 2022. Accordingly, the families of this insurance covered workers who died in…
71 kids rescued from child labour in Mysuru
June 13, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In a drive against child labour, the Labour Department has rescued 71 child labourers in 660 inspections from the last one year in Mysuru district. According to the inspection drives led by Labour Officer, Senior Labour Inspector and Labour Inspector from April 2022 to March 2023, a total of 20 child labourers and 51…
Congress stages protest against Government’s anti-labour policies
November 22, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of various demands such as implementation of pension scheme and necessary facilities be provided to labourers by the Labour Department among other demands, the activists of Congress Labour Division staged a protest in front of the Office of the Labour Commissioner in city yesterday. The activists, who assembled in front of the…
Child labour survey begins in district
January 30, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to bring school dropouts back to schools, the Labour Department, in association with other concerned Departments and organisations, launched a month-long survey of Child Labourers in the district on Friday. Assistant Labour Commissioner Nazia Sultana launched the survey at Saraswathipuram. On the first day, the officials visited shops and checked for…
Labour Department instructs for direct credit of relief
June 1, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With the Government announcing a one-time relief of Rs.3,000 to each Labourer in the wake of COVID crisis, the Labour Department has directed the Labour Welfare Board to credit a total of Rs.749.55 crore to the respective bank accounts of 24,98,521 registered construction workers of the State. The Labour Department Under-Secretary B.S. Pradeep Kumar…
Calling construction workers
June 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Labour Department has invited applications from construction workers and other labourers, who have not yet received the Government’s one-time relief of Rs.5,000. The Labour Department had released the relief money to the workers whose details were found in the Labour Welfare Board. Now, the Department, in an initiative to cover all other workers…
Two Labour Inspectors suspended
June 4, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Cracking the whip on Government servants who display official apathy, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar on Wednesday suspended two Labour Inspectors of the city on charges of dereliction of duty. Senior Labour Inspectors R. Ravi (Circle No.1) and Nikhil Chandra (Circle No.2) are the ones who are suspended. The two, who were appointed as…
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