India announced on Friday the implementation of four new codes that seek to simplify and streamline the existing, decades-old labour laws in the country, in a fresh attempt at reform to help liberalise conditions for investment. The new labour codes will ensure better wages, safety, social security and welfare for the country's workforce, the ministry of labour said in a statement.

The labour ministry said gig and platform work was defined for the first time in the new guidelines, seeking to provide better welfare. "With expanded social security, stronger protections and nationwide portability of entitlements, the codes place workers, especially women, youth, unorganised, gig and migrant workers, firmly at the centre of labour governance," the ministry said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi'

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