Ministry of Labour & Employment
Gangwar launches Software Applications and
instruction manuals with questionnaire for five All
India Surveys; Says labour data is crucial inputs
in policy making
Posted On:
18 FEB 2021 2:48PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour & Employment Shri Santosh Kumar
Gangwar today launched the trainers’ training programme for the All India Surveys being conducted
by Labour Bureau, an attached office of Ministry of Labour & Employment by releasing the
Instruction Manuals & Questionnaires for the surveys and the software application developed. He
was accompanied by Secretary L&E Shri Apurva Chandra and Senior Labour & Employment
Advisor and Director General, Labour Bureau Shri DPS Negi.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Labour Minister said that data on all aspects of labour is crucial to
serve as inputs in policy making especially in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The five All India
surveys on migrant workers, domestic workers, employment generated by professionals and transport
sector have tremendous role to play at national level by providing data on the most effected labour
market participants. The Minister lauded the efforts of Shri Apurva Chandra, Secretary, L&E and
Shri DPS Negi, Director General, Labour Bureau for their steadfastness and exemplary role which
have finally culminated in the launch of four All India surveys.
Secretary L&E Shri Apurva Chandra informed that the Government has constituted an Expert Group
under the chairmanship and co-chairmanship of Dr. S. P. Mukherjee and Dr. Amitabh Kundu
respectively with leading economists and statisticians as members to guide Labour Bureau for
conducting these surveys. The Expert Group has so far conducted forty-six meetings of the group and
Sub-Group to finalise the questionnaire, instruction manuals and sampling designs of these surveys.
He stressed that this is the first time that the Bureau will collect data through greater use of
information technology which will enable it to effectively meet the rapid demands for data in the
field of labour and employment. He said, surveys will be conducted using AI based technology
intervention with Speech-to-Text facility along with Geo-Fencing Technology, Travel Schedule,
Message Broadcast functionalities inbuilt. He added that real time reporting and monitoring with
advance dashboards, command and control centre are also being developed.
Director General, Labour Bureau Shri D.P.S. Negi, emphasized on the use of Artificial Intelligence
and Machine learning with data storage in cloud computers along with geo tagging to enhance the
data collection, assimilation and processing. He also stated that these ambitious surveys will provide
a comprehensive picture of the employment scenario in the country thereby formulating sound
National Employment policy of the country.
The Labour Bureau is entrusted with five All India surveys
a. All India Survey of Migrant workers,
b. All India survey of Domestic Workers,
c. All India survey of employment generated by Professionals,
d. All India survey of employment generated in Transport Sector and
e. All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey
The surveys are also significant in terms of the path-breaking initiative being taken by Bureau in
terms of use of Information Technology (IT) in the entire chain of data collection to report
generation. In a pioneering move, all across the country, data under all the surveys will be collected
through IT enabled software using handheld electronic devices and will be stored and processed
electronically. The IT interventions in conduct of surveys will reduce the completion time of surveys
by at least 30-40%. The Bureau will engage an IT partner for providing the technological support for
these surveys. This success of Bureau in utilisation of this innovative technology will be worth
emulating by other agencies involved in similar survey works.
The Bureau is also going to launch All India Quarterly Establishment Based Employment Survey to
assess the employment situation in establishments with more than 10 workers and also less than 10
workers. These surveys will fill the huge data gap that exists on the employment numbers in the
unorganized sector.
The Bureau is also gearing up to take up its role as the nodal agency for collating statistical returns
under all the four labour codes. For the last hundred years Labour Bureau has been at the forefront in
fulfilling the data needs of various stakeholders in the field of labour & employment. Besides being
the repository of data on labour, the Bureau is also nationally and internationally renowned for
compilation and generation of vital statistics like the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers
(CPI-IW) the base of which was recently revised to the year 2016, Consumer Price Index Numbers
for Agricultural and Rural Labourers (CPI-AL/RL) and for undertaking numerous surveys and
studies on different aspects of labour.
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