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The main activity of the Labour Department is to promote opportunities for Men and Women to obtain decent and productive work. It aims to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthening dialogue in handling work related issues.
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The National Child Labour Project
The department has also successfully launched the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) in Dimapur district in 2008. Under this scheme, schools are established specifically for children below the age of 14 who are employed in those Occupations & Processes which are listed under hazardous category in the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986..
ESI Dispensary, Dimapur
The promulgation of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 envisaged an integrated need based social insurance scheme that would protect the interest of the workers in contingencies such as sickness, maternity, permanent or temporary disablement resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity and death due to employment injury..
The Child And Adolescent Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 has been amended by the Central Government and is now referred to as the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016. The motive of the amendment is to include coverage of adolescents who are between the ages of 15 to 18 years in the ambit of the provisions in the above Act..
The Trade Unions Act, 1926
The Trade Unions Act, 1926, provides the workmen right to form unions in order to have collective voice to press their demands and to fight against exploitation which may even go to the extent of ‘strike’ as per the provisions of the Act.
