Introduction-
The Central Board for Workers Education (CBWE) is an independent agency of the Indian government’s Ministry of Labour & Employment. The Societies Registration Act of 1860 governs its registration. Since its inception in 1958, India’s Workers Education Scheme has played a major part in the growth of our country by producing a knowledgeable and disciplined work force and bringing about desired behavioural changes in our workforce in the organized, unorganized, and rural sectors. To carry out its operations, it receives grants in aid from the Ministry of Labour & Employment. The Workers Education Scheme attempts to accomplish the goals of raising workforce awareness and training them for an effective role in the socioeconomic growth of the nation. In order to accomplish these goals, numerous training initiatives are carried out by Through a network of 50 Regional and 09 Sub-Regional Directorates dispersed around the nation and an apex Training Institute called the Indian Institute of employees Education (IIWE) in Mumbai, the Board provides national, regional, and unit-level services for employees in the formal and informal sectors.
Details of the concept-
WHAT ARE CBWE’S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES?
To foster pride in being an Indian and a sense of patriotism, national integrity, unity, amity, and community harmony among all working-class groups.To provide all workers with the necessary tools for their informed participation in the socioeconomic growth of the country. To foster in the workforce a greater awareness of the issues facing their social and economic environment, their family commitments, and their rights and responsibilities as citizens. To increase employee capacity in all areas to meet national problems.To create trade unions that are powerful, unified, and more accountable.To give employees more authority as members of the company.To provide for the need of workers to have access to gaining and ongoing improvement of knowledge and abilities.
Employee education The Workers Education Scheme in India, which was established in 1958, has played a major part in the growth of our country by producing a knowledgeable and disciplined work force and bringing about desired behavioural changes in our workers in the organized, unorganized, and rural sectors.
What three levels of schooling are there for workers? The three stages of the workers’ education programmes are as follows: The National Level: This is the highest level of education for workers. The regional level: Programs at the regional level are designed to provide selected workers with the necessary training. The Unit/Village Level: This is when the programme comes to a close.
Rural Workers Training
1) To encourage rural workers to have a critical knowledge of the issues in their socioeconomic environment as well as their rights and duties as employees, village residents, and citizens.
2) To instill a scientific mindset in the rural employees and to boost their self-confidence.
- To teach rural workers how to advance and defend their private and public interests.
4) To assist rural workers in creating organisations that will enable them to carry out their socioeconomic duties and responsibilities and to support the democratic, secular, and socialist fabric of rural society. Consequently, encouraging rural workers to plan for their families’ welfare and fight against societal ills.
WHO ARE THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF WORKERS EDUCATION (IIWE)? WHAT ARE THEIR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES?
In March 1970, the Indian Institute of Workers Education, an elite training facility under CBWE, was founded. Targets and Goals In order for the Board to conduct training courses at the national level, IIWE was established.The institute creates specialised training programmes and acts as a demonstration and information hub.The institute is intended to serve as a hub for interdisciplinary training.All academic activities at the institute are planned and overseen by a tripartite managing committee.
Worker’s Education in different sectors of the Economy-
STRUCTURED SECTOR
The candidates chosen through a nationwide advertisement for employment as Education Officers under the Board get training at the first level. These Education Officers are assigned to various Regional Directorates after successfully completing their training at IIWE, Mumbai.Workers from various establishments who are sponsored by trade unions and released by employers get second-level training at regional directorates. These employees are known as workers trainers.The Workers Trainers teach classes for the rank-and-file employees at their particular enterprises at the third level, which is the most crucial level.
UNIFORMED SECTOR
The Board has taken on the responsibility of educating the workforce in the unorganised sector in order to increase awareness of their issues.The following units’ employees are covered by these programmes:
Rural, handloom, and powerloom industries Industry ParksSmall-Scale Businesses
Sector: Rural
The Board started the programme for rural workers’ education in 1977–1978 with the following goals:
To raise rural workers’ awareness of the issues facing their socioeconomic environment, as well as their rights and obligations as employees, village residents, and citizens;To teach the rural employees how to preserve and advance their own and the community’s interests; To teach the rural workers how to boost their self-confidence and develop a scientific attitude. To motivate rural workers for family welfare planning and the fight against social ills. To educate rural workers in creating their organisations through which they can fulfil socioeconomic functions and responsibilities in rural economy.
Conclusion-
In the concluding section, I reflect on how I analysed both public and private documents from the archives of workers’ education, and I make connections between and among them by identifying three organising themes: women workers as a) students; b) educators and activists; and c) creators. What I propose is that when working women’s personal and political histories are combined as subordinated knowledges, they produce archives of radical futurity, a future that has not yet arrived.