7. What are the main considerations land-owners/small business/ enterprise owners in employing skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers? Evaluate the role of factors like caste, creed, religion, language, domicile, customs and traditions, socio- economic profile etc. of both employer & employee, particularly the latter.

8. How is migrant labour used for both agricultural and non-agricultural work recruited? Is it through (i) jobbers (ii) contractors, (iii) advertisements (iv) introduction from existing employees, (v) employment exchange and (vi) any other method?

9. Are the recruitment arrangements satisfactory for different kinds of employment?

10. Will better dissemination of information regarding employment and better mobility including augmentation of transport arrangements help job seekers?

11. What are your suggestions to reduce dependence of labour on exploitative contractors? What should be the State role in this regard in different work situations?

12. Is there earmarking of certain types of work for performance by traditional castes/ tribes who migrate in search of such work though local labour may be idle? What could be the socio –economic reasons for this situation?

13. Would training inputs help in making unorganised sector labour more employable in traditional occupations as well as newly emerging opportunities? Which are the sub-sectors where training inputs would be of significance?

14. Are existing arrangements for vocational training in different fields sufficient? How can such facilities be improved?

16. What are your specific suggestions regarding the changes that are required in the above laws in the context of unorganised sector labour?

17. What are your views for enactment of legislation on the lines of the Kerala Agricultural Workers Act, 1974 in your State?

18. Apart from new legislation or changes in existing ones, what other steps are required for ensuring proper working conditions of unorganised sector labour?

19. What are your views regarding a central umbrella legislation for ensuring a minimum level of protection to the unorganised sector labour? What should be the essential components of such legislation?

20. What are the conditions of women and children in unorganised sector labour? What special steps need to be taken to improve health facilities, water supply and sanitation, nutrition, education and shelter for such categories?

21. What is your opinion about the efficacy of the Contract Labour Act and Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act? What improvements would you recommend?

23. What is the impact of social customs based caste and other considerations leading to structural rigidities in society , on the state of lack of organisation of labour in this sector?

24. Is the choice before grass-root level administration, particularly in rural areas, between a desire to promote and encourage organisation of unorganised sector labour to secure their legitimate rights and economic development and maintenance of law & order, a mutually exclusive and an irreconcilable one?

25. How does the existing legal framework of civil and criminal law and other public safety /security laws impinge on the absence of organisation of unorganised sector labour?

26. What role have the trade unions played so far vis-a vis unorganised sector labour?

27. What role have NGOs, political parties etc. played so far in organising this sector?

28. What has been the nature of efforts in organising unorganised sector labour and to what effect? Which are the successful efforts and factors which helped such successes?

29. Is organisation of unorganised sector labour an essential pre-requisite for improving their living standards?

30. Can there be a common thread reusing through the objectives of organisations for different sectors of unorganised labour or should such objectives be different for different sectors necessitating separate organisations?

31. Is the Trade Union Act, 1926 relevant to the issue of organisation of unorganised sector labour? What are your suggestions regarding the changes required or separate legislation?

32. What is your perception of the relevance and utility of cooperative laws to the issue of organisation of unorganised sector as well as the changes that may be required?

34. How many days’ employment do agricultural labourers, get in non-irrigated & irrigated areas in year-both male and female, What are the figures for other rural labour in irrigated & non-irrigated areas as well as for self-employed persons? What is the situation in urban centre in this regard (in your State/ region/area) so far as unorganised sector is concerned?

35. What are the figures of earnings for each of the categories in the queries asked in the previsions question? What is the trend of these earnings, in real terms, both on daily and yearly basis, over the last 30 years, and particularly in last10 years – upward, downward or static?

36. How does the capacity to earn by self-employed persons –both in urban & rural areas – compare with that of wage labour? What is the specific situation as regards those who are mostly or completely self-employed in agriculture vis-à-vis the agricultural labour in this respect? What have been the trends in income between the self-employed and wage labour categories of persons in the unorganised sector and what have been the factors influencing the same?

37. Do your recommend a centrally-fixed minimum wage for the unorganised sector labour in the country? If so, should it be a daily wage or yearly earning?

38. What are your specific views regarding the working of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948? What should be the criteria to fix minimum wages and changes required in the concept and definition of minimum wages ? Your views may be specifically in the context of the unorganised sector.

39. What are your views regarding recent efforts to fix a minimum wage for rural labour (including agricultural labour) based the linking of such minimum wage with the concept of poverty line?

40. Do you recommend similar initialives for fixing a minimum wage for the urban unorganised labour? What are your views regarding changes /improvements that may be necessary for rural and urban unorganised labour so far as method of fixing minimum wages is concerned?

41. Comment on the state of enforcement of minimum wages in the unorganised sector and its possible implications on total emoluments if it were to lead to the employer with drawing non-monetary benefits.

42. How far is it practicable to revise minimum wage for the unorganised sector periodically and what should be its periodicity? Should such revisions be based only on changes in cost of living index, or also on other factors? Please comment on other factors that may be relevant for such revisions.

43. What is your opinion regarding the proposition that the state would be justified to reduce the minimum wage for drought –relief, flood-relief and employment guarantee programmes meant for providing welfare and social security ?

44. Is there discrimination based on sex, community, caste, language, place of domicile etc. in payment of wages? How could such discrimination be reduced/ eliminated?

45. What is to be done for organising the unorganised sector labour and for their education to impart greater consciousness of their rights and privileges as regards wage entitlement, conditions of work etc? Comment on the working of the existing schemes in this regard and how these can be improved

46. What has been the impact of employment generation schemes like NREP, RLEGP, JRY, FFW etc. in rural areas as regards income level of rural labourers, employment situation, bargaining power for securing better employment etc? Should the level of wages in such programmes be equal to greater than or lesser than minimum agricultural wages? Should similar programmes in urban areas like NRY launched on a large scale? Should such wages be daily-rated or piece- rated or a combination?

47. Employment is statutorily guaranteed only in Matarashtra State. How effective has this guarantee been? Do you think that other States /U.Ts should enact similar legislation? Should such schemes be operated only as a support mechanism, particularly for bean season employment in rural areas?

48. What should be the criteria for allocation of funds to an area/ district/State for employment generation programmes?

49. Do you suggest a separate agency for enforcement of Minimum Wages Act, 1948 for the unorganised sector? If so, please give the details. Alternatively, should this task be vested in Panchayat Raj machineries, particularly in rural areas /municipal authorities in urban areas.

50. In the context of economic liberalization with its emphasis on cost competitiveness and efficiency , leading to manpower rationalization / separation in many organised industries, what are your suggestions for improving the social security/ manpower development set-up for stabilising unorganised sector employment?

52. What are the estimates of migration inflow and outflow in your area during last 5 years? Is intra-state or inter-state migration in your State a serious problem? What steps have been taken to manage it?

53. How do you distinguish migratory labour from resident labour? What are the main methods of inductment of migratory labour in your area/State contractors, relations, fellow workers or direct recruitment by employers?

54. What are the effects of labour migration on the economy, particularly wage rates and employment, in the area-

56. Please comment on the working of administrative and legislative measures, particularly the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 and suggest modification that would be necessary to improve its working.

Are the provisions of laws promulgated for unorganised sector labour like the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979, Plantation Labour Act, 1951, Beedi & Cigar Workers Act, 1966, Bonded Labour System (Abolition)Act, 1975, Contract Labour System (Regulation & Abolition) Act,1970, sufficient?

Apart from new legislation or changes in existing ones, what other steps are required for ensuring proper working conditions of unorganised sector labour?

What is your opinion about the efficacy of the Contract Labour Act and Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act? What improvements would you recommend?

57. What are the main ways in which migrant labour is often exploited (eg. , hours of work, wages etc.) and how can such exploitation be checked?

59. Do you think that the requirements of unorganised sector labour in terms of health, education, sanitation and water supply, housing, environmental improvement etc. are adequately covered under the Minimum Needs Programme? Would you make may specific suggestion for enlarging the coverage to accommodate other important needs? Is implementation of programmes in these sectors satisfactory? How can these be improved?

60. Do you think that adequate consideration has been given to the unorganised sector labour and their various needs, particularly in rural areas, so far as financial allocation under different 5 year/ annual plan periods is concerned? What are your specific suggestions for the future?

61. What is the impact of technological up-gradation and modernization and organisational restructuring (particularly in last nine years) on labour efficiency, productivity and wages in organised sector and concomitant impact on the unorganised sector.

62. To what extent is the proposition that improved technology leads to tower labour absorption, justified?

63. In which particular occupations in rural areas, the demand for labour is likely to decline with better technology/mechanisation? What could be the specific measures to absorb the samples?

64. How successful have the legislative measures for land reforms been in relation to

66. The land ceiling laws have generated a relatively small extent of land as surplus. How could these be made more stringent and its implementation improved?

68. Should social security be understood as a package of measures? If so, what should be the main components? Please outline such a scheme in the context of unorganised sector labour.

69. It is held that social security measures for unorganised sector labour are constrained by factors such as :

71. Should the rates of old age pension be revised at specified periodicity and such revision linked to cost of living index?

72. Is their any scheme in your area/state to cover accident risk in different occupations under the unorganised sector? If so, give a brief description of each insurance scheme already in operation or proposed to be implemented- whether individually or in group and the administrative and financial problems experienced.

73. What have been the procedural and other difficulties experienced in settling the claims of persons covered by various insurance schemes? Is it due to lack of education & awareness, unorganised nature of labour and its dispersed nature of employment (in rural areas)? What steps have been taken in your State/Territory to simplify the procedures for timely settlement of claims?

74. Is it possible to introduce in your State/Territory a "Health Insurance Scheme"? If so, what should be its coverage and essential frame-work? If it is considered to be not feasible, please give the main reasons.

76. What is the position in your State/Territory regarding wage discrimination based on gender and measures taken/contemplated to check it?

77. How active have the NGOs and independent institutions been in organising women to secure their rightful claim and prevent exploitation?

78. Education and technical training improves skill and hance, bargaining power. What have been taken in this area with a view to improve the bargaining strength of women workers.

79. What is the extent of involvement of children in unorganised labour sector under different prominent occupations? What steps have been taken to curb it and to what results?

What are your views regarding a central umbrella legislation for ensuring a minimum level of protection to the unorganised sector labour? What should be the essential components of such legislation?

81. Should such legislation be common to the entire unorganised sector or be separate for rural and urban sectors or wage labour and self-employed persons? Should there be a separate legislation for agricultural workers who form a very large chunk of unorganised sector labour? Please also refer to questions 15, 31, 38, 47, 56 and 69-76.

83. Please state the additional items (together with sources and periodicity) on which data relating to unorganised sector labour should be collected .

84. Is the data collection machinery adequate and well-equipped? What are your suggestions for improvement?

85. What measures do you suggest to ensure reduced time lag between reference period and availability of data?

86. What could be the measures to disseminate collected statistical data in a timely manner? What could be the role of information technology?

87. Apart from statistical data, certain issues and problems concerning unorganised sector labour may require in-depth studies on regular basis. What is your perecption of core subjects which would require periodical studies?

88. Please after your suggestions regarding strengthening of institutions/ starting new institutions for undertaking studies on unorganised sector labour.

89. How should research in unorganised sector labour be promoted in universities /other research bodies?

90. How could research work be disseminated quickly & widely to the other academic bodies and Government and non-Government agencies?