Why rejig in labour laws will not help and holistic reforms are essential

Radhicka Kapoor, senior fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, said the government has to create policies for boosting demand

When Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan went to town about a sea of labour law changes he has to offer to new businesses, he wasn’t probably aware that a tsunami was coming his way.

Labour law reforms, a forever demand of the industry, has always been a sensitive issue in India and for a chief minister to announce major pro-business changes to the labour laws through a press conference on May 7 was a rare sight in India’s recent political history.

Later that evening, the Uttar Pradesh government issued a press statement about a flurry of decisions taken by the