57. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake and enforce effectively measures to ensure equal treatment between
men and women in the labour market, and to consider enacting legislation on equal pay for work of equal value in both the public and
the private sectors, and for such legislation to be adopted at the State level. The Committee also recommends that the State party
continue to make use of affirmative action measures to promote active political participation of women.
58. The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report, in addition to the requests already mentioned in
previous paragraphs, a specific section on:
(a) The results of the measures taken to combat
discrimination of all forms;
(b) The situation of women and the extent to which they
enjoy the right to own land and property independent of
their male relatives;
(c) The impact of the micro-credit programme for
women, the progress achieved and the difficulties
encountered;
(d) Detailed information regarding street children; and
(e) Annual data, disaggregated by age, sex, caste, ethnicity
and religion, as well as specific benchmarks, to enable
adequate monitoring and evaluation of the progress
achieved.
59. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the right to decent work and provide sufficient resources to the labour
inspectorate to enable regular and independent inspections of health and safety conditions in all sectors. In this regard, the State party
should take effective measures to ensure that violations concerning prohibited labour practices, such as bonded labour, manual
scavenging and the worst forms of child labour are stringently prosecuted and employers duly sanctioned. The Committee
recommends that the State party launch a national campaign to abolish manual scavenging and other degrading forms of work and to
provide information on the results achieved in its next periodic report. The Committee further recommends that measures to
rehabilitate affected children, to monitor their work conditions and their living conditions following removal from such work, be
strengthened and significantly expanded to cover all children engaged in the worst forms of child labour. The Committee also
recommends that the State party consider ratifying the following ILO Conventions: No. 182 (1999) on the Worst Forms of Child
Labour; No. 138 (1973) on Minimum Age; and No. 174 (1993) on Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents.
60. The Committee recommends that the State party provide, in its next periodic report, information on the measures taken within
the framework of the Tenth and the Eleventh Plans to achieve an adequate rate of employment growth in order to ensure the fullest
possible enjoyment of the rights under article 6 of the Covenant. The Committee further recommends that the State party provide the
necessary conditions to encourage private sector employers to create additional jobs in the process of economic growth.