Half-Day Webinar on ‘Female Labour Force Participation: Challenges and Way Out’
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CPPG and the General Management & Economics Area at GIM in association with V. V. Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI) organised a Half-Day Webinar on ‘Female Labour Force Participation: Challenges and Way Out’ on 2nd November 2022. The webinar consisted of 2 detailed discussion sessions, one, Female Labour Force: Trends and Issues and two, Improving Female Labour Force Participation: Policy Implications. Prof. Morris presented during the first session. While Dr. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG, moderated the second discussion. The webinar also witnessed other presentations from eminent practitioners, academics and policy-makers in the field of labour economics.
The Webinar had the following objectives – To understand the phenomenon of low female labour force participation rate in India; To understand factors responsible for low female Labour force participation; To understand the issues of women in the unorganized sector and identify the impact of prevailing laws on FLFP; To develop a set of recommendations for informing policy and programme to address declining female labour force participation across sectors and suggest ways to increase participation of women in the labour force.
Can be accessed from: https://vvgnli.gov.in/en/course/online-half-day-webinar-female-labour-force-participation-challenges-and-way-out
Keynote speaker(s)
Professor Ritu Dewan (Vice President, Indian Society of Labour Economics), Ms. Amarjeet Kaur (General Secretary, AITUC, New Delhi), Mr. Ankur Dalal (Regional Labour Commissioner Ministry of Labour & Employment, New Delhi), Shri Barun Kumar Ray, IAS (Principal Secretary, Labour Department Government of West Bengal), Dr. Shikha Anand (Director, Directorate General of Employment (DGE), Ministry of Labour & Employment), Dr. Maya John (Assistant Professor, Jesus and Mary College) and Prof. Santosh Mehrotra (Former Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Discussant
Prof. Sebastian Morris
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
https://gim.ac.in/faculty/sebastian-morris;
https://sebastianmorris.org/ ;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-morris-27a4521/
; +91 832 2366733;
Contact: morris@gim.ac.in ; 91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
https://gim.ac.in/faculty/kingshuk-sarkar ;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kingshuk-sarkar-060b564a/ ;
https://vvgnli.gov.in/sites/default/files/kingshuk-sarkar-cv.pdf
Contact: kingshuk@gim.ac.in ; 91 832 2366942
Schedule
5.30 pm to 6.00 pm: Registration and Refreshments
6.00 pm to 6.05 pm: Welcome (Dr. Pushkar and Ms. Bernice de Souza)
6.05 pm to 6.10 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM
6.10 pm to 6.15 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Imran Rahman, Vice Chancellor, ULAB
6.15 pm to 6.20 pm: Setting the Context (Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG-GIM)
6.20 pm to 7.00 pm: Keynote address by Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti, Director, C-SAS, ULAB
7.00 pm to 7.25 pm: Open session, discussion and Q&A (Moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG)
7.25 pm to 7.30 pm: Vote of Thanks (Ms. Christal Ferrao)
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Contact Persons
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Vividha Amonkar, Executive – Administration, CPPG, GIM
Email: vividha@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 94052 01816