Setting up of Migration Commission by NITI Aayog

 NITI Aayog has formed a team to develop the National Action Plan for Migrant Workers.

Highlights:

♦ The team is composed of members from various ministries of the Govt. of India, subject matter experts, NGOs and civil society organizations to develop practical action plans to solve problems related to migrant workers.

♦ In order to safeguard the interests of migrant workers, the Central Government promulgated Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.

♦ The Act has now been incorporated into the "Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020", and the Code was notified on September 29, 2020.

♦ The above-mentioned code (usually called OSH Code) stipulate decent working conditions, minimum wages, grievance mechanism, protection from abuse and exploitation, and strengthen the skills and social security to all category of organized and unorganized workers, including migrant workers.

♦ The guidelines apply to every agency that hired or employed 10 or more inter-state migrant workers on any day in the past 12 months.