The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act lays great emphasis on the flexibility of structure and generation of employment. The employers firmly believe that employment of contract labour has become essential in view of rigidities of labour laws providing job security to the employees who are `workmen` under the Act. The employers gain because of low wages and laving in the cost of supervision. There has been, thus,. an increasing tendency on the part of the employers to assign more and more work to contractors instead of getting it done through regular employees employed of their own. However, the subject of contract labour has attracted much debate during two decades.