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• When the country experienced a nationwide lockdown and almost all the factories, construction sites, mills, etc. were brought to hold, millions of migrant labour across the country went unemployed overnight and worse than that they were miles apart from their homes and families at the time of crisis.
• Labours in India receive compensations according to the law but receive no insurance policy.


• Efficiency and productivity of the Indian labour are almost 3 times lower than American and Chinese labour.
• Contractual labour often receives almost half of the wages they should receive otherwise.

The growth of informalization, particularly in occupations of urban centres based on migration, reflects the casualisation of labour. The labour strategies of survival by walking and withdrawing during the COVID-19 pandemic can hardly be understood in terms of ‘temporary displacement’.

Declining labour standards exhibit this trend in a fairly long-term framework: a 2015 research paper in Seminar, pointed out that in the organised manufacturing sector, the share of profits has tripled from 20-60% of net value-added, whereas the labour share has fallen by exactly the same proportion since the 1980s. Almost at the same time scale (1980s-2015), ‘contract labour’ (through the subcontracting system) in the manufacturing sector has risen from 7-35%.

Therefore, contractual hiring of labour has resulted in a growth of productivity but has resulted in migrant workers receiving a lesser and lesser share of the profits (3 times lesser share as they used to receive in the 1980s).

Average Indian labour works for around 25-30 years of their life and is only eligible for compensation in case of any mishap only at the place of work. Leave apart medical/ life insurances, they hardly ever receive recognition and respect at the workplace.

However, despite the fact that Indian labour works 6 days a week they are nearly 3 times less productive than American labour which works only 5 days a week. Compared to China which is the global industrial competition to India, the labour is more than 2 times less efficient and productive.

LACK OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

There is a dearth of educated and trained labourers in India. Untrained and uneducated labourers do not understand the intricacies of his job in a better way. As a result, productivity is hampered.

LACK OF EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION

In India, there is a lack of efficient and well-organised management which results as an obstruction in the efficiency of the workers. Industrialists hire factory/mill managers that hire contractors which provide them with the workforce. Micromanagement is absolutely absent from this system because the contractor claims to only provide the workforce while the manager claims that the workforce and everything related to it is the contractor’s problem.