Labour laws are not the reason hindering India's rapid industrialisation

India aspires to be the successor, the replacement and competitor to Chinese industrial powerhouse in the post-Covid world. While comparisons do not square up, the rush to jettison restrictive labour laws seems to be on the fast track. When Vasco da Gama wanted to take a spice sapling from Kerala, the statement attributed to the Zamorin of Calicut is instructive. He told Vasco da Gama to take the sapling but reminded him that he could not take the weather, soil and climate. Is the lack of eco-system in India a big obstruction despite some states being on overdrive to change