The Rajya Sabha has passed the Labour Laws Amendment Bill, 2011 amid walkout by Left parties. The Bill seeks to provide for maintenance of registers and returns in computer and computer floppy.

Piloting the Bill, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said, it will safeguard the interests of labourers and bring about transparency and accountability in their recruitment process. Basavaraj Patil of BJP said the Bill will fulfill the long-standing demand of wage revision of the laborers.

Opposing the move, Madhusudhan Mistry of the Congress said that the Bill will create more complexities and will safeguard only the interests of the recruiters and industrialists. Not satisfied with the move, the Left parties staged a walk out.