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The Twenty-eighth Session of the ‘Labour Ministers’ Conference (New Delhi, October 26,1976) which considered the question ofprotection and welfare of Dadan Labour recommended the setting up of a small Compact Committee to go into the whole question and to suggest measures for eliminating the abuses prevalent in this system. The inter-State migrant workmen are generally illiterate, unorganised and have normally to work under extremely adverse conditions and in view of these hardships, some administrative and legislative arrangements both in the State from where they are recruited and also in the State where they are engaged for work are necessary to secure effective protection against their exploitation. The Compact Committee which was constituted in February, 1977, therefore, recommended the enactment of a separate Central legislation to regulate the employment of inter- State migrant workmen as it was felt that the provisions of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition ) Act, 1970, even after necessary amendments would not adequately take care of the variety of malpractices indulged in by the contractors/ Sardars/ Khatadars, etc., and the facilities required to be provided to these workmen in view of the peculiar circumstances in which they have to work.