MAHATMA

GANDHI
LABOUR
INSTITUTE
- B.V DOSHI
INTRODUCTION
The Mahatma Gandhi Labor Institute was established in the year 1979 by the government of Gujrat
to provide for education, training, study and research in labour and related subjects in furtherance
of the policy of the Government to promote harmonious industrial relations and social justice.
Architect B. V. Doshi was the Architect for the project. The institute is accredited by the All India
Council of Technical Education (AICTE). However, the institute is located in the outskirts of
Ahmedabad, and is initially notable as a development of certain design and climatic ideas explored
at the B. V. Doshi’s studio ‘Sangath’. The most striking similarities between the two buildings are the
white ceramic chip-clad concrete as well as terracotta wrought barrel vaults which create shaded,
well-ventilated, and softly-lit interiors.
H •The first Labour Laws Review Committee headed by Justice D.A. Desai
had in 1974, recommended to have a full-fledged Institute for studies in
the field of Labour & Employment to be set up at Ahmedabad. Apart

I from the recommendation of the Labour Laws Review Committee,

Government had also felt the need for well organized programmes - for
research, training and development to meet effectively the challenges

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in the field of Industrial relation and employment. A Scheme for the
establishment of an Institute of Labour Studies at Ahmedabad was
accordingly, submitted by the Commissioner of Labour in June
1978. The Government had included it in Sixth Five Year Plan of the

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Gujarat State. The Government orders were issued on 6th September,
1979 for setting up the Institute at Ahmedabad and naming it as
"Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Labour Studies." Accordingly the
Institute was registered as a Society, under the Societies Registration Act,

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1860 on 15th September, 1979 bearing registration No:
GUJ/681/Ahmedabad with the twin objective of promotion of
harmonious relations and providing social justice to labour.
•The Govt. of Gujarat had allotted land admeasuring 11,500 sq. mtrs. for

R the Institute on survey No: 196 of Village Vastrapur, on the Drive-in-

road, Ahmedabad. Shri B.V. Doshi, a World famous Architect of M/s.
Stein Doshi & Bhalla, Ahmedabad was appointed as the Architect for the
Building of the Institute. The foundation stone laying ceremony of the

Y Institute was performed by Shri Babubhai J. Patel the then Chief Minister
of Gujarat State on 20th September , 1979. Initially, the Institute was
housed in a building in the Raj Bhavan Complex. After the construction
of the Institute’s new building it was inaugurated by Shri Virendra Patil,
AMINITIES