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Sl. No. Laws related to Industrial Relations

1.The Trade Unions Act, 1926

The Trade Unions (Amendments) Act, 2001

2.The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946

The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Rules, 1946

3. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947Sl. No. Laws Related to Working Hours, Conditions of Services and Employment

1. The Factories Act, 1948

2. The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948

3. The Plantation Labour Act, 1951

4. The Mines Act, 1952

5.

The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service

and Misc. Provisions) Act, 1955The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service

and Misc. Provisions) Rules, 1957

6. The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

7. The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

8. The Beedi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

9.The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970

The Contract Labour Regulation Rules

10.The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976

The Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1976

11.The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of 

Service) Act, 1979

12.

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 

13. The Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986

14.The Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment &

Conditions of Service) Act, 1996

15.The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) (inapplicability to Major Ports)

Act, 1997

Sl. No. Laws Related to Equality and Empowerment of Women1. The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961

2. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976Sl. No. Laws Related to Deprived and Disadvantaged Sections of the Society

1. The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976

2. The Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986

3. The Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1933

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Sl. No. Laws Related to Social Security

1.The Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 

The Employees' Compensation (Amendments) Act, 2000

2. The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 

3.

The Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952  

The Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act,1996

4.The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

The Payment of Gratuity Rules

5.The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008

The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Rules 2008

6. Employees liability act 1938

Sl. No. Laws Related to Labour Welfare

1. The Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946

2. The Limestone & Dolomite Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 19723. The Beedi Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1976

4.The Beedi Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1976

The Beedi Worker's Welfare Cess Act Rules, 1977

5.The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines & Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare

Fund Act, 1976

6.The Iron Ore Mines, Manganese Ore Mines & Chrome Ore Mines Labour WelfareCess Act, 1976

7. The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981

8. The Cine Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1981

9.The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry latrines Prohibition

Act, 1993

Sl. No. Laws Related to Employment & Training

1.The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959

The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Rules, 1959

2. The Apprentices Act, 1961

Sl. No. Laws Related to Wages

1.

The Payment of Wages Act, 1936

The Payment of Wages Rules, 1937

The Payment of Wages (AMENDMENT) Act, 2005

2.The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

The Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950

3.The Working Journalist (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958Working Journalist (Conditions of service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Rules,

1957

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4.The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965

The Payment of Bonus Rules, 1975

Sl. No. Others

1. The Fatal Accidents Act, 18552. The Weekly Holiday Act, 1942

3. The War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1943

4. The Personal Injuries (Emergency) Provisions Act, 1962

5. The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963

6. The Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Act, 1974

7.The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Register by

Certain Establishments) Act, 1988

8. The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

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

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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

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 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 recently-after 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

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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