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Ex-IOC chairman Sanjiv other organisation. Singh has com- sis and dissemination of statistics on
pleted only two months of superannua- labour, the ministry said in a state-
Singh joins Reliance Indus- tion. ment.

tries
Sanjiv Singh, former chairman of Indian "Directors and chairmen of public sec- The current mandate of the labour
Oil Corporation (IOCL), has joined Reli- tor enterprises need to sign a bond bureau is to compile important indica-
that they will not work with any com- tors like consumer price index for indus-
ance Industries as group president and
member of the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) pany that had commercial relationship trial workers, agricultural and rural
business leadership team, senior RIL with their organisation, for a period of labour numbers for industrial, agricul-
officials said. one year without the permission of the tural and rural numbers for industrial,
Government of India. Else, pay six agricultural and rural labourers besides
Singh, who superannuated from the months of the salary as a compensa- wage rate indices and data on employ-
services of IOCL on 30 June, will lead tion to the Government which usually ment and unemployment.
and drive the group's manufacturing is in the range of Rs. 10-15 lakh," said
services which is considered the back- a senior official from an oil marketing Railways to allow private
company.
bone of RIL's oil-to-chemicals business. train operators to choose
"As a member of the O2C leadership
we look forward to his contribution in Labour Bureau to become halt stations
driving manufacturing excellence and one-stop repository soon Private operators who will be handed
transition towards making Reliance over 150 trains to ply on 109 routes by
O2C a global leader in energy and The labour ministry will soon give the Railways will have the freedom to
materials," Hital R Meswani, executive statutory powers to the labour bureau choose halt stations of the trains they
director, RIL, said in an organisation to become a one-point of information operate, documents released by the
on all labour related data, more than
announcement. national transporter have shown.
seven decades after the body was
formed. A provision to this effect will
Singh took over as chairman of IOCL in
be made in the labour codes. However, the private operators have
June 2017. A chemical engineer from
to submit in advance to the Railways
IIT-Roorkee with a diploma in manage- the list of such intermediate stations
ment, Singh joined the oil marketing "Necessary provisions in codes and rules on the trains' paths where they are
company in 1981. will be provided to give statutory pow-
ers to Labour Bureau," labour secre- proposing halts in advance.
tary Heeralal Samariya said. Samariya
At IOCL, Singh spearheaded refinery The private operators also have to pro-
operations, playing a key role in the was speaking at the launch of the offi-
cial logo of labour bureau. vide the time in and time out at the
setting up, commissioning and stabili- intermediate railway stations, which
zation of two of IOCL's biggest
greenfield refineries at Panipat and Labour bureau was established as Di- shall form part of the train operation
rectorate of Cost of Living at Shimla in plan. This has to be submitted in ad-
Paradip.
1941 with the objective of conducting vance and will be in place for at least
Singh had also implemented the pet- family budget enquiries and compiling a year, after which it can be revised, a
rochemical projects of paraxylene/PTA cost of living index numbers for impor- draft of the Concession Agreement has
and naphtha cracker with downstream tant centres on a uniform basis. said.
units at Panipat refinery.
However, it was rechristened as "The Concessionaire shall have the flex-
Singh's appointment at RIL, however, Labour Bureau in 1946 after a need ibility in deciding the stops/ halts in
has raised eyebrows as according to was felt for more comprehensive accordance with the terms and condi-
the Department of Public Enterprises labour statistics in the context of for- tions of the Concession Agreement,"
guidelines, a public sector official retir- mulation of labour policies. the Railways has said in reply to a
ing at the rank of chairman or direc- query by one of the private players
tor, is expected to follow a six-month Since then the labour bureau is en- who attended pre-application meet-
cooling off period before joining any gaged in collection, compilation, analy- ings.

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