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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicSocial security

Topic: Social security

Labour codes kick in after 6 yrs: Minimum wage, social security, advance notice for strikes

Four codes related to wages, industrial relations, occupational safety, health & working conditions, and social security, have been operationalised by the Centre.

In trade pact talks with US, Delhi pushing for clause on social security contributions for Indians

If incorporated, professionals, who go from India to the US for short-term work of up to 3 years, as well as their employers, don’t have to pay double social security contributions.

Govt can’t make gig workers’ welfare all about social security. Choice, flexibility are key

Social security design for platform-based gig workers must be benchmarked against schemes available for the organised and unorganised sectors.

India’s gig workers need urgent social security. But Gehlot’s new law isn’t the answer

India's experience with Coal Mines Provident Fund and Seamen's Provident Fund should lead us to ask if the idea of a centralised welfare fund is itself problematic, and prone to misuse.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.