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73 Int'l Lab. Rev. 551 (1956)
The Influence of International Labour Convention on Indian Labour Legislation

handle is hein.journals/intlr73 and id is 675 raw text is: The Influence of International Labour Conventions on Indian Labour Legislation by V. K. R. MENON Since India received its first Constitution in 1919, Indian labour legislation has made great strides ; indeed, the most important laws, with the notable exception of the Indian Mines Act of 1901 and the Factories Act of 1911, have all been enacted in this period. It is therefore particularly interesting to examine to what extent social legislation in India has been influenced by the standards set by the International Labour Conference, the more so because India has been a member of the International Labour Organisation ever since its foundation. In the present article Mr. V. K. R. Menon, former Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the Government of India and at present Director of the I.L.O. Branch Office in India, traces the direct and indirect influence of international labour Conventions on labour legislation in India. In so doing he incidentally shows how the tripartite structure and workings of the International Labour Organisa- tion have found their counterpart in certain Indian institutions, for example the Indian Labour Conference set up in 1942. MORE than once, after delivering an address on the Interna- tional Labour Organisation, I have been asked: Can the I.L.O. take all the credit for the labour legislation in the Statute Book of India ? or-which amounts to practically the same- Would not India have enacted all these legislative measures, even if the I.L.O. had never existed ? . Anyone with a long experience of the constitution and functioning of the I.L.O. will, 'For a similar article concerning Greece see Nicolas VALTICOS: The Influence of International Labour Conventions on Greek Legislation , in International Labour Review, Vol. LXXI, No. 6, June 1955, pp. 593-615.

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