India's plantation labour act
Subtitle: a critique
By: Malini L. Tantri
Contributors: Institute for Social and Economic Change
Series: Working paper -- 398; Working paper (Institute for Social and Economic Change) -- 398.
Publisher: Institute for Social and Economic Change
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Plantation workers; Legal status, laws; Government policy; India
Description: The paper critically revisits the PLA 1951 (and its amendments) and discusses threads  of anomalies in its making over the years. While doing so, it discusses the conflicts about the domain of plantation sector, on the issue of institutional exclusion, presents views of planters and government bodies on the components of social costs and explore alternative ways to reduce social welfare cost components of the sector so as to improve cost competitiveness of the industry along with protecting labour interest.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.