NEW DELHI: India, on Thursday, committed itself to universal and sustainable social security system, improved governance in all its future endeavour and imparting skills for development of all BRICS nation at the BRICS Labour & Employment Ministers' meet which concluded on Thursday."The meeting concluded with the adoption of the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial Declaration which covered a variety of areas that are of critical importance to all BRICS countries including India and called upon strengthening collaboration and cooperation on these through appropriate institutionalization," labour ministry statement said.According to the statement, the focus areas of the declaration included "governance in the future of work", "skills for development in BRICS", "universal and sustainable social security systems", "BRICS network of labour research institutions", "BRICS social security cooperation framework" and "BRICS entrepreneurship research". Top-level Indian team was represented by the labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya at the labour minsiters' meet in China.China is the chair for the BRICS Labour & Employment Ministers' Meet for the year 2017. The BRICS labour and employment ministerial declaration would now be presented to the leaders/Head of the State summit scheduled to be held this year in Xiamen, China."BRICS countries should collaborate to address the challenges of the 'Future of Work' emerging in the area of non-standard forms of employment like part-time work, temporary work, fixed term contracting and subcontracting, home based work, etc. that are changing the character of the labour markets in the BRICS countries," Dattatreya said at the event.According to Dattatreya, networking of labour institutes of BRICS nations could create mechanisms for regular exchange of information and creating further areas of cooperation in this and other common areas."Technology could be a critical enabler for creating efficient and transparent labour governance structure and that in India ICT has been deployed to ensure effective, timely and efficient delivery of services and for creating simpler and transparent compliance structure in all areas including financial inclusion, social security, employment generation and skilling," he added.At the two-day event Dattatreya emphasised that skilling not only increases the employability of the workers but also the productivity of the employers which leads to a cycle of increased production, increased revenue stream and increased GDP of the country.On the occasion, India endorsed the BRICS Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation and reduction through skills which inter alia includes policy recommendations to integrate poor into overall national plan for vocational training, improving lifelong vocational training and learning systems, promoting high quality apprenticeship systems, strengthening collaboration between Governments, sectors and enterprises for research initiatives, and leveraging the network of BRICS National Research Institutes for creating such alliances.