Monday, 11 April 2022 | PNS | Roorkee
The Union minister for Labour and Employment, Bhupendra Yadav will inaugurate the 62ndAnnual Labour Economic Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) to be held during April 11-13 at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The three-day conference is being organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee and it will be attended by a large number of well-known scholars and experts.
The ISLE annual conference had been uninterruptedly organised every year since 1958. Due to the Coivid pandemic it could not be organised in 2020 and 2021. After Covid, it is one of the biggest academic events in the country, according to the event organisers. The topics for discussions at this year’s conference include the employment challenge, migration and development, and social protection for workers.
IIT Roorkee director professor Ajit K Chaturvedi said, “IIT Roorkee is delighted to host this prestigious annual conference which will bring leading economists to our campus and provide a wonderful opportunity to our faculty and students for interaction.”
The ISLE president and former vice chancellor of the University of Delhi, professor Deepak Nayyar said,”With new challenges for the future of work emerging as a result of an increasing shift in technologies, the nature of education and skills required for the labour market will be very different. And this meeting aims to cater to these challenges in the global and Indian context.”
Professor Alakh N Sharma, the president of the conference and director, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, said, “This conference will deliberate some critical issues facing India and will provide insights for policy making in the areas of employment generation, migration and social protection of workers. The conference is the most important platform for deliberations for all those concerned with labour, employment and development issues.”
