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Govt to launch 2nd version of National Career Service portal in 2024; prod states on labour reforms

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The federal government will launch the second model of the Nationwide Profession Service (NCS) portal in addition to persuade states to roll out labour reforms as a part of efforts to additional enhance the benefit of doing enterprise and supply social safety for the unorganised labour, notably gig and platform staff, in 2024. Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav informed PTI that his ministry will quickly launch the “advanced version, namely NCS 2.0, to facilitate better job matching and search facility for jobseekers along with a recommendation engine for skilling by the use of latest technologies and leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning”. The NCS challenge was launched in July 2015 to offer varied employment-related providers, together with profession counselling, vocational steering, info on ability growth programs, apprenticeship and internships, by a digital platform.

As of November 30 this yr, the NCS platform had greater than 3.64 crore registered jobseekers, 19.15 lakh employers and an inventory of greater than 1.92 crore vacancies. The portal registered greater than 13.49 lakh energetic vacancies in November.


The portal is built-in with amenities of 28 state/Union Territories to develop a complete pan-India community. It has additionally been built-in with varied non-public portals like monster.com, Freshersworld and HireMee to have an inventory of vacancies.

It is usually linked with the federal government’s Talent India portal Udyam Portal (MSME), e-Shram, EPFO, ESIC and DigiLocker, amongst others.

Concerning labour reforms, the minister stated that in 2024, “as India continues to march towards being a developed economy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, I am hopeful states will begin rolling out the labour reform introduced by the Centre”.

“… so that the India of Amrit Kaal has a healthier and socially secure workforce that contributes to the country’s growth and at the same time gains from it; and also so that we continue to firm up ease of business in the country,” he famous.

To roll out labour reforms within the nation, the Centre has formulated 4 Labour Codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Code on Social Safety, 2020; and the Occupational Security, Well being and Working Situations Code, 2020.

Amongst different aims, these codes search to strengthen the safety accessible to staff, together with unorganised staff, when it comes to statutory minimal wage, social safety and healthcare.

As a step in direction of implementation of the 4 codes, guidelines are required to be framed by the central authorities in addition to by the state governments.

The central authorities and a number of other states/Union Territories (UTs) have pre-published the draft guidelines below the 4 codes for stakeholder feedback.

The Centre needs to implement guidelines below the 4 codes concurrently with states for uniform applicability of those legal guidelines as labour is within the concurrent listing of the Structure of India.

In the meantime, this yr noticed a major growth with respect to larger pensions on larger contributions for subscribers of the Workers’ Pension Scheme 1995 run by the retirement fund physique EPFO.

Earlier this yr, a web-based facility was made accessible by the Workers’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for submitting purposes for Validation of Possibility/Joint Choices for pension on larger wages. The power was for eligible pensioners/ members in compliance with the Supreme Court docket order on November 4, 2022.

The power will enable the subscribers and pensioners to contribute extra on their precise primary wages, that are larger than the edge of Rs 15,000 per 30 days. It will allow them to get larger pensions commensurate with their precise primary wage.

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