The Author: R.K.A. Subrahmanya

Sri R.K.A. Subrahmanya, a post graduate in economics joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service in 1950. He was appointed Addl. Secretary in the Union Ministry of Labour in 1979 where he was mainly concerned with labour welfare, social security and wages. He represented the GoI in the International Labour Conferences held in Geneva for four years out of which he was elected as Chairman of Conference Committees, including the one on Social Dimensions of Industrialisation in three consecutive years. He was a member of a committee set up by the ILO for studying the future of social security in developing countries. He was a member of the International Social Security Association for full five years. He was also appointed as a Member of the A.P. Administrative Tribunal in Hyderabad. He was the founder Secretary General of the Social Security Association of India for nearly twenty years. He was the Coordinator of the Research Project called Simplification Rationalisation and Consolidation of Labour Laws and was largely responsible for the production of the book India Labour Code 1994. His two volume book on Law on Employment has been published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths. Sri Subrahmanya was the Chairman of the Study Group on Social Security set up by the National Commission on Labour. He was awarded a Medal of Merit for his contribution to the cause of social security by the International Social Security Association in the year 2000. [ssanantha@yahoo.com]

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