For close to three decades, those wanting economic reform (ie greater market-orientation) have called for changes in India’s multiple, archaic, rigid and procedure-bound labour laws. Yashwant Sinha proposed some changes when he was finance minister in the Vajpayee government about two decades ago. Following widespread criticism, he had to retrace his steps. And ever since the Modi government assumed office with a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha, the charge has been that it has not changed the country’s labour laws. The standard argument through three decades has been that the failure to bring about changes has come in the
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