Seminars
Professor Ajeet N. Mathur
participated in the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) national consultation seminar on
training and employment policy with India organized by Ministry of Labour and Employment and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on
February 20-21, 2008 and presented a paper “National Training Policy: What kind
of Roadmap?” In this presentation, Professor Mathur emphasised the need to make some assumptions about the
upper limits at which an augmented quantum of technical and skilled labour supply in different specialisations
may no longer be absorbable on the basis of market demand for decent work in
the domestic market. He therefore urged for policy research on dependent and
independent services in all four modes of service supply abroad because the
ten-year transitional period of GATS already expired in 2006. He noted that
despite skills shortages in