UPSC Prelims 2022 Question:

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

Learn more about the Labour Bureau in the given explanation below.

Explanation:

• Labour Bureau has been engaged in collection, compilation and analysis and dissemination of labour statistics at All India and State level on different facets of labour since its inception in the year 1920.
• The various editions on Statistics of “Industrial Disputes, Closures, Retrenchments and Lay-offs in India during 2006” is compiled based on the voluntary returns received every month from the Labour Departments of the States and the Regional Labour Commissioner (Central).
  
  

About Labour Bureau

• Labour Bureau, an attached office under Ministry of Labour and Employment, was set up on 1st October 1946.
• It is entrusted with the work of compilation, collection, analysis and dissemination of statistics on different aspects of labour.
• Labour Bureau has two main wings stationed in Shimla and Chandigarh.
• The functions/activities of Labour Bureau can be classified under the following major heads:
  • Compilation and maintenance of Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers, Agricultural/Rural Labourers, Retail Price Index of Selected Essential Commodities in Urban Areas etc.
  • Quick Employment Survey and Employment-Unemployment survey are also being conducted by Labour Bureau.
    
    

Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.