The Migration Story 93d ago

The labour codes have been in and out of our news cycles for some years now. But the truth is that the discourse surrounding consolidating India’s labour laws dates back far longer: all the way to 1991 post-liberalisation India. If you have been asking questions about what these labour codes mean for the economy, how much of the working population the codes actually cover, and what the labour codes mean for India’s larger developmental agenda, this conversation is for you. We speak with Dr. Santosh Mehrotra, a renowned development economist, on some of the contemporary history surrounding the call to reform our labour laws. This wide-ranging episode touches upon questions such as - Are the labour codes expansive enough to cover most of India’s working population? And does a reform in the law actually translate immediately to ground reality? What are the governance questions that arise from our attempt to reform the labour laws? Dr. Santosh Mehrotra is a development economist, and the Lead Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow; a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labour Economics, Bonn; a Visiting Professor, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK; and a Former Professor of Economics, Centre for Labour, JNU Visit : www.themigrationstory.com Subscribe to our newsletter TMS Dispatch here: https://lnkd.in/drZUNPBs Follow The Migration Story on: Twitter: https://x.com/TMigrationStory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-migration-story/ Instagram: themigrationstoryindia