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The
Institute in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU) has launched a Certificate Course on ‘Labour in
Development’. The main objective of this Course is empowerment of
the working class in general and unorganised labour in particular.
Trade union workers and leaders, functionaries of NGOs and
panchayati raj institutions, district development agencies, social
activities, rural educators and individuals intending to be
organisers / educators are the clientele/learner groups for this
programme. The specific objectives of the programme are:
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To provide awareness about the factors responsible for labour
problems,
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To
provide awareness about labour laws,
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To
provide information regarding various welfare schemes for the
weaker sections for improving their economic and working
conditions,
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To
pinpoint the sources of leakage of the development schemes/programmes,
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To
promote organisation of the unorganised.
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