To get an idea about the narrowness and sectoral obsession of our labour laws, sample these: “Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Act, 1955”; “Payment of Wages (Air Transport Services) Rules, 1968”; and “Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions Of Service) Act,1976”. Should the government get into micro-managing such sector-specific issues? While the vested interests in individual sectors have helped perpetuate such laws, many of these laws have actually ended up pushing companies to circumvent these by opting for temporary staff, rather than helping the intended beneficiaries. Doing away with such sector-specific laws that affect a tiny section of the labour force could be among the lowest hanging fruits for the Modi government.