Agriculture labourer problems and solutions
Part of: GS-III- Economy-Labour (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST)
Problems of Agriculture Labour:
Marginalisation of Agricultural Workers. The workforce in agriculture (cultivators plus agricultural labourers) was 97.2 million in 1951 and this rose to 185.2 million in 1991. As against this, the number of agricultural labourers rose from 27.3 million in 1951 to 74.6 million in 1991. This implies that (i) the number of agricultural labourers i
International Workers’ Day
Part of: GS-III- Labour (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST)
Every year, 1st May is celebrated as the International Workers’ Day and as Labour Day in different parts of the world to commemorate the contributions of workers and the historic labour movements.
It is a day when the International Labour Organisation (ILO), nations, employers and workers from all over the world commit themselves towards the collecti