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Can Automation and Smart Staffing Bring Success to the PLI Backed Textile Sector?

Can Automation and Smart Staffing Bring Success to the PLI Backed Textile Sector?

In India, the PLI scheme can help generate employment while staffing solutions such as TeamLease can help in workforce management. The scheme encourages domestic and local production to...

13 Reasons Why: New E-commerce Rules Haunt Businesses

13 Reasons Why: New E-commerce Rules Haunt Businesses

At a deeper level: 8: Lack of Definition: Lack of uniform definition of e-commerce, since buying/selling goods online are generally considered as e-commerce/internet commerce, even though the final...

A skill is worth more than a degree on paper

A skill is worth more than a degree on paper

Vocational training is a policy orphan because strategy is set by Delhi but delivery systems are in the hand of states. There is a mismatch between what is...

Spurious MBA education – a useless, fancy, label

Spurious MBA education – a useless, fancy, label

Still, don’t parents and caretakers carry out even a semblance of due diligence before shelling out their hard-earned money on little-known institutes with high-decibel claims? However, the lies...

FORGET TOXIC SHORTCUTS

FORGET TOXIC SHORTCUTS

Over the last three years the Ministry of Labour has not displayed strategy, stamina or sequencing and unimaginatively equated labour reform with tackling Chapter VB of the Industrial...

Jobs, facts and fiction

Jobs, facts and fiction

India’s labour markets are confusing, and I’d like to make the case that, one, India has more formal jobs than we think; two, our primary policy challenge is...

Demonetization – Impact on small business

Demonetization – Impact on small business

The enterprises have hailed the move to tackle black money circulation in the economy and expect that it will provide benefits to the sector in the long run....

Is Recruitment Process Outsourcing about a mere onsite deputation?

Is Recruitment Process Outsourcing about a mere onsite deputation?

Essentially RPO is about bringing in predictability into the recruitment processes through dis-aggregating tasks and handing them over to specialist/s. Recruitment Services have been perceived as a human...

Day of the specialist

Day of the specialist

Civil servants are often better-educated and more articulate than ministers; so they are able to talk about any area. But familiarity is different from mastery. The most interesting...

Stop Kissing All Those Frogs

Stop Kissing All Those Frogs

China’s labour force is declining while India’s increases by 10 lakh workers every month. China’s farmto-non-farm transition happened to factories for exports. India’s fastest growing job roles are...

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