Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - India (Ratification: 1959)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

1. The Committee took note with interest of the Government's report and the information provided in reply to its earlier comments. With regard, in the first place, in a general manner, to the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Committee on the National Employment Service (the "Mathew Report"), the Committee noted that of the 56 recommendations initially formulated, 35 have been implemented in various forms and to various degrees, or transmitted to State Governments and to Union Territory Administrations for implementation. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate in more detail in its next report the recommendations that have been implemented and the measures that have been taken or are envisaged based on the recommendations, in relation to the relevant provisions of the Convention. 2. The Committee noted that the Government had decided not to follow up the recommendation of the Mathew Report concerning the setting up of a Department of Manpower and Planning and a Manpower Service Committee which would have been placed under the control of the national authorities. It would be grateful if the Government would supply additional information on the way in which Article 2 of the Convention is implemented, with reference to the analysis in the Mathew Report (Chapter 11, paragraph 11.8) on the consequences of the transfer of resources and responsibilities to the States. The Committee pointed out that Article 2 of the Convention stresses the value of the principle of organisation upon which the employment service shall be established on a national basis and under the direction of a national authority; however, this principle is naturally not an obstacle to the decentralisation of administrative responsibilities in the operation of the service. 3. Finally, the Committee took note of the Government's position concerning the question of compulsory use being made of the employment service. However, recalling the earlier statement by the Government concerning the limited use of the employment service by the private sector, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on the measures taken or envisaged, when necessary, to encourage full use of the employment service on a voluntary basis, in accordance with the provisions of Article 10.

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The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.