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Draft labour rules: No licence for contractors with criminal history

Norms also include past insolvency; move not enough to weed out fly-by-night contractors, say industry experts

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At present, firms in India are required to obtain separate licences for each work order that they execute if they want to hire contract workers

Somesh Jha New Delhi
The central government has proposed bare minimum eligibility norms for manpower agencies or contractors to get a first-of-its-kind pan-India licence for hiring contract workers for a period of five years.

The government has proposed just two conditions for contractors to get a common licence valid across all Indian states.: That they should not have been convicted of a crime or been insolvent in the past two years.

“For the purposes of obtaining licence, the contractor as an entity or as an individual should not be an un-discharged insolvent or convicted any time during the last two years of an offence which is