Labour Bureau, CSO, DPIIT Explained UPSC Pre 2022

In India, which one of the following compiles information on industrial disputes, closures, retrenchments and lay-offs in factories employing workers?

(a)Central Statistics Office

(b)Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

(c)Labour Bureau

(d) National Technical Manpower Information System

 

Solution

 

C

1. Central Statistics Office (CSO)

Works under MoSPI

computation of GDP, GSDP, CPI (Rural, Urban, All India) etc.

 

National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) → data collection for various socio-economic indicators, Annual Survey of Industries

(ASI), Rural-urban prices and other data required for CSO’s calculations.

 

In 2019 , National Statistical Office (NSO) → CSO +NSSO

 

Memorise- CPI for Industrial worker by labour bureau and Other CPI by NSO[CSO]

 

2.Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

 

Interim-Budget- 2019:

Govt renamed Commerce Ministry’s

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to

Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)

 

1. It’ll function under Ministry of Commerce and Industry

2.DPIIT’s Objectives? [Memorise it]

Promotion of internal trade,

including retail trade,

welfare of traders and their employees,

matters relating to ease of doing business; and

startups.

 

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

looks after Internal and External Trade, WTO, Dumping, SEZ, FDI related issues. It’s the

boss of

 

PSU - Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC)

 

The formulation of policy in respect to Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) is the

responsibility of (UPSC-CDS-2020)

(a) the Ministry of Law and Justice

(b) the Department of Science and Technology

(c) the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

(d) the Ministry of Human Resource Development

 

Solution

C

 

 GI Logo

‘Invaluable Treasures of Incredible India’ → Commerce Ministry’s logo for GI products

to make them more attractive to foreign buyers.

 

2019-June: DPIIT issued guidelines for its usage:

 

1. DPIIT’s prior permission required before using this logo.

2. DPIIT will not charge any no fees.

3. Permission duration will be decided on case-to-case basis.

4. DPIIT would not be responsible for the authenticity or quality of the products with

these logos.

5. Foreign GI products are not allowed to use India’s GI logo.

 

3.Labour Bureau

 

[established in 1920,attached office [i.e more autonomy in day to day working] under the administrative control of the Ministry of Labour & Employment. ]

 

has been engaged in collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of labour

statistics at All India and State level on different facets of labour since its inception in the year 1920.

 

It is a storehouse of important economic indicators

like Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial,

Agricultural and Rural Labourers;

 wage rate indices and data on industrial relations,

socio-economic conditions in the organized and unorganised sector of industry etc.

 

 

It releases annual publication titled, ‘Industrial Disputes, Closures, Retrenchments and Lay-Offs in industries in India’.

 

It provides statistics on work-stoppages, closures, retrenchments and lockouts which is useful in making policies for maintaining cordial and harmonious relations between the management and the worker.

 

 

The functions/activities of Labour Bureau can be classified under three major heads:

 

Labour Intelligence

Labour Research

Monitoring and evaluation studies under the Minimum Wages Act 1948

 

 

Inflation Index	By	Base year
Consumer Price Index: 1) Rural 2) Urban 3) ALL India[RBI needs to control @2-6%]	NSO, MoSPI	2012 [proposed 2018-19]
Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI)	same	2012
CPI Industrial Workers (IW)	Labour Ministry’s Labour Bureau @ Shimla [HP]	2016 [recently updated] [ determine the dearness allowance of employees in both the public and private sectors]
CPI Rural labourers (RL), Agri. labourers (AL)	Same as above	1986 [news of changing it to 2019]
Wage rate Index	Same as above	2016
Wholesale Price Index (WPI)	Economic Advisor to DPIIT, Commerce min. [It is different from chief economic advisor under Finance ministry ]	2011

 

Note -

 

NSO release

IIP - Index of industrial production base year -2011 [proposed 2017-18]   GDP base year -2011 [proposed 2017-18]

 

Important - Change in base year is proposed to accommodate

the changes taking place in economic scenario of the country

[i.e GST, Demonetization, RERA etc.]

 

 

 

Which of the following brings out the 'Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers'? [2015]

(a) The Reserve Bank of India

(b) The Department of Economic Affairs

(c) The Labour Bureau

(d) The Department of Personnel and Training

 

Solution

C

4.National Technical Manpower Information Systems (NTMIS)

 

is a scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development[now ministry of education],

funded by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

 

 main objectives

 

estimate the long-term and short-term requirement of technical manpower in the country and their supply on the basis of the intake and the outturn figures; 

and to provide forecasts about the adequacy and shortage of manpower requirements in future years

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