New Delhi, PIB News: In the series of Training programs being conducted by the Labour Bureau across the country for the launch of five All India Surveys, the Bureau conducted a training program for the Supervisors/ Investigators of the All-India Survey on migrant workers and All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES) at Kolkata from 24th to 26th March 2021. The training was imparted by officers of the Labour Bureau and was attended by supervisors engaged for the surveys and the officials of the Bureau. In addition to physical participation, a number of supervisors/officials attended the training virtually from across the country.
The rigorous and intensive training programs were designed to train the supervisors for effective supervision of the two surveys. The officers from Bureau gave detailed presentations on the survey mechanisms for the All India Survey on Migrant Workers and the All India Quarterly Establishment Based Employment Survey. In two-day-long parallel training sessions held for both the surveys, the supervisors were introduced to among other things the survey objectives, survey mechanisms, and details of fieldwork of household surveys. The comprehensive training program was designed with the objective of achieving high-quality results under both surveys.
These surveys are two of the five All India Surveys being launched by the Bureau this year. The Bureau had recently engaged BECIL a Government of India enterprise for providing IT support in these surveys. The supervisors were also given hands-on training in the use of software applications developed by the IT Partner under Clise guidance of the Labour Bureau for both the aforementioned surveys. The field investigators will use these applications on handheld tablets to collect field data under all five surveys. The survey software applications are equipped with all the latest features to make the fieldwork faster and more accurately than ever before. The integration of technology in the conduct of these surveys will reduce the completion time of surveys by 30-40%.
The All-India survey on Migrant workers and the AQEES is set to be launched by Bureau on 1 st April 2021. The other three surveys will also be flagged off one after another in a phased manner All surveys will provide crucial data for policy formulation in the field of labor and employment. The training was successfully completed under the aegis of the Expert Group Chairman Prof S P Mukherjee. Speaking on the occasion, Shri DPS Negi, DG, Labour Bureau underscored the importance of these surveys and how they will prove to immensely useful in policy formulation in the field of labor and employment.
He also stated that Bureau is devoting focused attention to the training aspect of these surveys so that supervisors & Investigators understand concepts clearly which will help them to cull responses and that will ensure high-quality results. While expressing great pleasure in the successful completion of the program, he added that such similar training will again be conducted for another set of supervisors and field investigators next week before the final flag-off of the two surveys on 1st April 2021.