{"id":111679,"date":"2026-07-07T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=111679"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:26:51","slug":"chief-labour-commissioner-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chief-labour-commissioner-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Labour Commissioner (Central)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) Organisation continues to strengthen labour welfare and industrial harmony across the country through sustained awareness programmes, effective grievance redressal mechanisms, and timely conciliation efforts. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Chief Labour Commissioner (Central)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), also <\/span><b>known as the Central Industrial Relations Machinery,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an<\/span><b> apex organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the country responsible for <\/span><b>maintaining harmonious industrial relations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mainly in the <\/span><b>sphere of central Government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is under the<\/span><b> aegis of the Ministry of Labour &amp; Employment,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Government of India.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Headquarters: New Delhi\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) <\/b><b>Formation<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In pursuance of the <\/span><b>recommendation of the Royal Commission on Labour<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India, the organization was <\/span><b>set up in April 1945<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by combining the former organizations of the conciliation Officer (Railways), Supervisor of Railway Labour and the Labour Welfare Advisor.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>then charged mainly with duties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>prevention and settlement of industrial disputes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>enforcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/labour-codes\/\" target=\"_blank\">labour laws<\/a>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and to <\/span><b>promote welfare of workers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the industrial <\/span><b>establishments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">falling within the sphere of the<\/span><b> Central Government.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>started <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a <\/span><b>small complement of staff<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comprising a <\/span><b>Chief Labour Commissioner (C) at New Delhi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 3 <\/span><b>Regional Labour Commissioners<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Bombay, Kolkata &amp; Lahore, 8 Conciliation Officers, and 18 Labour Inspectors.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Conciliation Officer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s and <\/span><b>Labour Inspector<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were <\/span><b>redesignated as Assistant Labour Commissioner (C) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Labour Enforcement Officer (C).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization was further augmented gradually by <\/span><b>establishing<\/b> <b>regional offices at various places<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) F<\/b><b>unctions<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Prevention and settlement of industrial disputes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through <\/span><b>conciliation\/mediation.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Enforcement of labour laws and rules <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made there <\/span><b>under the Central Sphere.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Quasi-Judicial functions<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Verification of trade union membership<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miscellaneous functions <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2281652&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) is an apex organization in the country responsible for maintaining harmonious industrial relations mainly in the sphere of central Government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":111728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8554,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-111679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-chief-labour-commissioner","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111748,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679\/revisions\/111748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}