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Laws related to Industrial Relations The Trade Unions Act, 1926 The Trade Unions (Amendments) Act, 2001 The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Rules, 1946 The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 Laws Related to Working Hours, Conditions of Services and Employment The Factories Act, 1948 The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948 The Plantation Labour Act, 1951 The Mines Act, 1952 The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Act, 1955 The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Rules, 1957 The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 The Beedi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 The Contract Labour Regulation Rules The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976 The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1976 The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981 The Cine Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Rules, 1984 The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981 The Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986 The Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (inapplicability to Major Ports) Act, 1997

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Laws Related to Equality and Empowerment of Women The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 Laws Related to Deprived and Disadvantaged Sections of the Society The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 The Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 The Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1933

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Laws Related to Social Security The Employees Compensation Act, 1923 The Employees' Compensation (Amendments) Act, 2000 The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 The Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 The Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act, 1996 The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 The Payment of Gratuity Rules The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008 The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Rules 2008 Employees liability act 1938 Laws Related to Labour Welfare The Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946 The Limestone & Dolomite Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1972 The Beedi Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1976 The Beedi Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1976 The Beedi Worker's Welfare Cess Act Rules, 1977 The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines & Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1976 The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines & Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare Cess Act, 1976 The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981 The Cine Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1981 The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry latrines Prohibition Act, 1993 Laws Related to Employment & Training The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959 The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Rules, 1959 The Apprentices Act, 1961 Laws Related to Wages The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 The Payment of Wages Rules, 1937 The Payment of Wages (AMENDMENT) Act, 2005 The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 The Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950 The Working Journalist (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958 Working Journalist (Conditions of service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Rules, 1957

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The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 The Payment of Bonus Rules, 1975 Sl. No. Others The Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 The Weekly Holiday Act, 1942 The War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1943 The Personal Injuries (Emergency) Provisions Act, 1962 The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963 The Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Act, 1974 The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Register by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988 The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

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Important Commissions and Committees in India

1. Palekar Tribunal

Journalists Pay reforms

2. U.C. Banerjee Commission : Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways) 3. Sarkaria Commission : Centre-State relations 4. Srikrishna Commission : 1992 Bombay riots 5. Thakkar Commission : Indira Gandhi assassination case 6. Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee : Tehelka tapes 7. Malimath Commission : Criminal Justice 8. Upendra Commission : Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi 9. Malhotra Committee : Insurance Reforms 10. Janaki Ram Committee : Security scam 11. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee : Faster promotions in army 12. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1} : Companies and MRPT Act 13. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2} : Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India

14. Jyoti Basu Committee : Report on Octroi abolition 15 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee : Recommendations on decentralization system 16. Sawant Committee : Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare 17. Chelliah Committee : Eradicating black money 18. Kothari Commission : Educational reforms 19. Wanchoo Committee : Tax enquiry 20. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee : Agriculture 21. Aggarwal Committee : Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections 22. Rangarajan Committee : Reforms in private sector 23. Naresh Chandra Committee : Corporate governance 24. Chakravarti Committee : Banking sector reforms 25. Rekhi Committee : Structure of indirect taxation 26. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee : Disinvestment in PSU shares 27. Kelkar Committee : First committee on backward castes 28. P.C.Hotha Committee : Restructuring of civil services 29. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee : 1st chairman National Forest Commission 30. Godbole Committee : Enron Power Project 31. J.C.Kumarappa Committee : Congress agrarian Reforms Committee 32. Swaminathan Committee : Population policy 33. Rangarajan Committee : Statistics 34. Wardha Committee : Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines 35. N.N. Vohra Committee : Criminalization of politics 36. Kelkar Committee {2} : Direct-Indirect Taxes 37. Alagh Committee : Civil Service Examinations 38. Abid Hussain Committee : Recommendations on Small scale industries

39. Narasimham Committee : Banking sector reforms 40. Chelliah Committee : Tax reforms 41. Mashelkar Committee : National Auto Fuel Policy 42. Boothalingam Committee : Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy 43. Omkar Goswami Committee : Industrial sickness 44. Yashpal Committee : Review of School Education system 45. Ram Nandan Prasad Committee : Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes 46. Kelkar Committee{3} : Enquiry on Kargil defense deals. 47. M.M. Punchhi Commission : Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recentlyafter the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria] 48. Thorat Committee : Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS 49. R.K.Raghavan Committee : Ragging in colleges 51. James Lyngdoh Committee- Student politics and student-body elections in colleges. 52. E.M.S. Nachiappan Committee : Reforms in the higher judiciary 53. Soli Sorabjee Committee : Police Reforms [it was constituted after the Judgement of the Supreme Court in Parkash Singh vs Union of India (2006)] 54. Ganguli Committee : Review of health facility planning and healthcare engineering and management 55. Percy Mistry Committee : Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial Centre) 56. K.T. Thomas Committee- to look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 57. Fali S. Nariman Committee- Accountability and damages with regard to destruction of public property 58. Satwant Reddy Committee- review of laws relating to registration of pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials 59. Raghuram C. Rajan Committee- financial sector reforms 60. Shah Commission (1966)- reorganisation of States

61. Tarkunde Committee- composition of the Election Commission and other electoral reforms 62. Dinesh Goswami Committee- electoral reforms 63. G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985) - set up by the planning commission in 1985, to look into the Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and poverty Alleviation Programmes. 64. Butler Committee : Relation between Indian states & paramount power (the Queen of Britain) 65. Hurtog Committee : Growth of British India education-its effects 66. Muddiman Committee : Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms