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Investment Law

Beneficial Owners, Borders and Bottlenecks: Evaluating India’s FDI Policy under Press Note 3

Ananya Ahajoy & Param Kailash Introduction & Background The 2024 Economic Survey proposes that higher inflows of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) from China through the ‘China plus one strategy’ could be advantageous to India. The strategy calls for the diversification of supply chains beyond China, thereby improving investment onto other low-cost nations such as India, […]

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Labour

Reforming Labour: Unveiling the Impact of India’s New Labour Codes on Indian Social Landscape

Yash Sharan and Abhishek Nande Introduction In July 2024, the Centre began efforts to implement the Labour Codes amidst the protests. The conundrum stems from the testing times of the COVID-19 pandemic when the trade unions of the nation wrote to the International Labour Organisation (“ILO”) regarding the government’s policy of suspension of the then-existing […]

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Labour

The Karnataka Gig Worker’s Protection Bill: Laudable Yet Conspicuously Imperfect

S.V. Ghopesh Introduction The Karnataka state government recently issued a draft of the Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024, a rights-based bill that seeks to protect the rights of platform-based gig workers and places obligations on aggregators in relation to social security, occupational health, and safety of workers. It also acts […]