Factories

Boost enforcement mechanism to prevent child labour: Centre to states, UTs

The labour ministry asked states to make use of the online portal Platform For Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour for complaints

Li-ion battery plants being built to flood mkts with more cells than needed

Manufacturers have announced so many new factories that capacity will outstrip demand for the rest of the decade

Dhoni-backed EMotorad to build world's biggest electric cycle gigafactory

With an initial production capacity of over 500,000 e-cycles annually, the gigafactory aims to meet the rising demand for alternative modes of transportation

TMS 588: Domestic airline crises, megafactories, crypto-run, dry powder

Why do airlines go bust? How can India build megafactories like China? Will Bitcoin's dream run continue in 2024? What is dry powder? All answers here

Five states account for more than 70% of on-site worker fatalities

Although the number of factory workers being injured has declined, fatal injuries have increased in the last five years. In 2017, as many as 18 per cent of injuries led to deaths

Asian factories grapple with rising costs amid ongoing Israel-Hamas war

The data are a discouraging sign for the global economy, which has seen its bid for recovery threatened by uncertainty over the Israel-Hamas war and the prospect of wider conflict in the region

New private projects decline 79% in second quarter, shows CMIE data

The government's new project announcements, which typically include roads and other public infrastructure, are down 72.5 per cent year-on-year to Rs 0.4 trillion in September 2023

China's manufacturing contracts in July dragging down Asia factories

The Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers index declined to a six-month low of 49.2 in July from 50.5 in June, below the key 50 level that marks a contraction, a private survey showed

Most factories jumped on contract-work bandwagon even before pandemic hit

Of the 198,628 organised factories surveyed, 98.4% of them employed contract workers in 2019-20, significantly up from around 71% in the previous year

Women can now work at night in Delhi factories; Kejriwal govt changes rules

Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana governments had previously allowed factories to employ women on night shifts

Managing reform risks

Karnataka cannot relax after its bold move on labour law changes and should focus on their careful execution

Why the govt shouldn't just privatise factories but infrastructure too

India should consider a reverse Build Operate Transfer (BOT) model wherein the government finances a project on the EPC basis, and then when it's ready, it auctions it off to the private sector

Indian factories growing larger, getting clustered: Economic Survey

Number of persons engaged in larger factories was up 13.7 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent in smaller factories

'Three deaths every day': Labour safety under construction in India

As many as 3,331 deaths were recorded between 2018 and 2020, but only 14 people were imprisoned for offences under the Factories Act, 1948, during the same period, reveals data

Chexit, in parts: Reshoring, friend-shoring and billions of dollars in sops

Good or bad, India's current policy thrust on PLIs, capital subsidies, etc, is in line with the East Asian trend, if not global, notes T N Ninan

China orders factories to shut down amid fiercest heat wave in six decades

China's Sichuan province has ordered all factories to shut down for six days to ease a power shortage in the region as a scorching heat wave sweeps across the country, media report said

China's manufacturing activity improves after factories in Shanghai reopens

China's manufacturing activity improved in June after anti-virus controls that shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers were eased, a survey showed Thursday

Ola in talks with states for land to set up cell, electric car factories

Ola Electric needs 1,000 acres of land to set up its cell gigafactory and electric car factory which is expected to attract an investment of Rs 10,000 crore

How smart factories are turning green

Two factories in India are leading the use of emerging technologies for sustainability as part of the WEF Lighthouse network

190 of 1,080 industries polluting Ganga shut down, says govt

The Centre on Monday said of the 1,080 industries causing pollution in Ganga in five states, 190 have been closed while 165 are still not complying with norms. Of the 165, closure orders have been issued to nine and show-cause notices has been served to 156 grossly polluting industries, it said. Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Bishweswar Tudu said about 280.17 million litres per day (MLD) effluents is being discharged into river Ganga main stem having BOD load of 9.68 tons per day. According to the inventorization of 2020-21, 1,080 Grossly Polluting Industries (GPIs) operating in five river Ganga main stem states namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal were inventoried in consultation with concerned state pollution control boards, Tudu said in a written response. Inspection of GPIs were carried out during October 2020 to March, 2021 through technical institutes (TPIs) and action on inspection reports were taken b