Abstract
India is an agricultural country, but suffers from various issues and problems connected with the agricultural sector and especially with regard to the agricultural labour, the backbone of the economy. The issues and problems related to the agricultural labourers are not visualized by the main stream society and the policy makers. It is stated that the agricultural farmers are born in debt, grow in debt and die in debt. Most of the laws available to this community are not recognized and are not aware of the programs. They are not aware of it because they constitute the unorganized sectors of labour community. Unorganized workers in India include workers of home-based, mid-day meal, brick kiln, domestic, agricultural and construction. The others are head loaders, street vendors, cobblers, rag pickers, washer men, rickshaw pullers, landless labourers, are some of them. (Economic Times: 2019). In India most of the people are dependent on agriculture. But failure in agriculture in rural India coerces most people to be profitless and landless that forced them to be migratory in nature and ends up in any of the unorganized labour folk. As we look in to the labour issues, often one is reminded of the migrant labour, construction labour, industrial workers and the related. Hardly the attention turns towards agricultural labours. Hence this paper is an effort to trace and historical evolution of agricultural labour laws in India. It analyse the problems of agricultural labour and the role of legislation in solving their issues or to meet the situation.
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