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Ministry of Labour & Employment (MoL&E) Secretary Sumita Dawra participated in an industry interaction organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Employers’ Federation of India (EFI) here. In her inaugural address, Dawra highlighted India’s fast growth rates, and emphasized that India's demographic dividend and labour reforms are pivotal to driving future growth, alongside other growth engines of manufacturing, expansion of service sector, infrastructure, etc. Citing RBI’s KLEMS data, she conveyed that about eight crore new employment opportunities were created in India during past five years largely driven by various government initiatives aimed at incentivising and promoting manufacturing (such as PLI, Make in India), expansion of services sector, access to micro credit, investments, emergence of new areas such as Gig and platform workers, Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and Startups, etc.

She further highlighted the growing gig economy, which is estimated to employ about 2.3 crore people by 2030. Dawra discussed the consolidation of 29 labour laws into four comprehensive codes aimed at simplifying regulations and administrative processes, including the decriminalization of labour laws, thereby enhancing ease of doing business and reduction in compliance burden.



This will in turn be attractive for enhanced domestic and foreign investment flows, and in bringing supply chains and global value chains to India, she added. She further said that the reform.

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