The document discusses India's labour policy and the factors that have influenced its development. The key objectives of India's labour policy are to maintain industrial peace while promoting worker welfare. Specific policies highlighted include creating jobs, new social security schemes, improving worker benefits and conditions, and reforming labour laws to suit economic needs while upholding social justice. The development of India's labour laws has been shaped both by general factors like colonial rule and the independence movement, as well as country-specific issues such as protecting domestic industries from cheap British labour. A range of labour laws were passed immediately after independence to enshrine worker rights and establish a just social order, as promised by nationalist leaders.