Tag: Santosh Gangwar

Santosh Gangwar inaugurates Twitter handle that will provide latest statistics related to labour welfare

Labour Bureau, an attached office of Ministry of Labour and Employment has been collecting and disseminating information on various facets of labour like wages, earnings, productivity, absenteeism, labour turnover, industrial relations, working and living conditions and evaluation of working of various labour enactments etc.

May 28, 2020

Centre asks states, UTs to designate nodal officers to address grievances of migrant workers

Ministry of Labour and Employment has set up 20 Control Rooms for addressing issues of the labour/workers in the country in view of the lockdown.

April 18, 2020

EPFO cuts interest rate on PF deposits to 8.5% for 2019-20, says labour minister Gangwar

In the last fiscal, 2018-19, the interest rate was at 8.65 per cent.

March 5, 2020

Activist files petition against Santosh Gangwar for ‘insulting’ north Indians

The Union Minister said that there was no shortage of jobs but the companies wishing to recruit say that the youths here were ineligible.

September 17, 2019

Union Minister Santosh Gangwar says jobs are plenty, candidates unqualified for them

According to Santosh Gangwar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Bareilly Lok Sabha Constituency and Minister of State of Labour and Employment, there is no shortage of jobs in India but there are no qualified candidates to fill the vacancies.

September 15, 2019

Trade unions to boycott govt consultations on proposed labour code

Central trade unions on Tuesday announced their decision to boycott the Labour Ministry-convened consultations on the proposed Labour Code on Social Security, which is to replace 15 existing social security labour laws. In a communication to Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar, the trade unions said the government had completely ignored the earlier suggestions of the unions...

July 25, 2018

Anyone listening?

It was telling that the very editions which splashed the Prime Minister’s call for restrained comment from BJP workers should also carry reports of controversial utterances from a member of the ministerial council, and a party MP. Now it might require an ace detective to determine if Mr Narendra Modi’s exhortation not to provide the...

April 26, 2018

Gangwar continued spitting venom against BJD govt

Union Minister Santosh Gangwar said that those who campaigned for the Bijepur assembly bypoll on Monday felt people will vote for the BJP candidate because of the difference between 3 years of Modi rule and 18 unfruitful years of the BJD rule in the state. Gangwar accompanied by the party candidate Ashok Panigrahi, state BJP president...

February 14, 2018

Lok Sabha passes SBI merger Bill

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill, 2017, which would pave way for the merger of five associate State Banks with the State Bank of India. Minister of State for Finance Santosh Gangwar moved the Bill to repeal the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, the State...

August 11, 2017