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UP to prepare roadmap for labour reforms to fight coronavirus lockdown

The CM directed officials to issue the necessary advisory by tonight pertaining to the operation of the various industries during lockdown 3.0

Yogi Adityanath. Photo: PTI
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So far, UP has not cut nor delayed paying salaries to 1.6 million state employees and 1.2 million pensioners, which totals about Rs 12,500 crore every month, despite facing severe financial strain. Yogi Adityanath. Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the officials to prepare a roadmap for urgent labour reforms to deal with the headwinds of coronavirus lockdown.

Chairing a review meeting here on Sunday, Adityanath instructed UP infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC) Alok Tandon to facilitate the rebooting of industries in the state during lockdown 3.0 beginning tomorrow.

He mandated Tandon with the task to plan a strategy to introduce labour reforms in the industrial sector to cope up with the vortex of migrant labour crisis, lockdown and social distancing protocols.

The CM also directed officials to issue the necessary