Agricultural Labour: Various Issues

Improving the lot of teaming millions and establishing society on socialistic pattern has been one of the proclaimed objectives of free India. The direction of Development Project in free India, towards this goal emanates from die Preamble of Indian Constitution, get delineated in its Directive Principle of State Policy and sets down in very objectives of Indian Economic Planning. In the light of these facts the removal of unemployment and poverty in general and uplift of agricultural labour the direct producer and the poorest among the poor was set as an objective to find urgent attentions of the planners and policy-makers. It was first thought that growing industrialization of the country would lessen die burden of population on the land in rural areas and would lead to labour demand which in turn, with rising productivity, would increase in rural wages and thus uplift the level of agricultural labour. This hope got strengthened with the start of green revolution based on modernization of agriculture with technological diffusion. The process of development was reinforced by launching the target-oriented programmes of poverty removal.