Which of the following statement(s) is /are false ? 1. Wage Boards are tripartite in nature, with representatives from workers, employers and independent members 2. Except for the Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists, all the other wage boards are statutory in nature 3. Second National Commission on Labour has recommended against the utility of wage boards Select the correct answer using the code given below :

Statement 1 is true as Wage Boards are tripartite bodies comprising representatives of employers, employees, and independent members [2]. Statement 2 is false because the Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists are actually the only statutory wage boards in India, established under the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees Act, 1955 [3]. Other wage boards, such as those for the sugar or cotton industries, are non-statutory and their recommendations are not legally binding [1]. Statement 3 is true as the Second National Commission on Labour (2002) unequivocally recommended that there was no further need for Wage Boards to be constituted for any industry, suggesting they had lost their utility in the changing economic landscape. Since only statement 2 is false, the correct option is 2.

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1. [2] https://labour.gov.in/en/wageboard/introduction
2. [1] https://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/Wage%20Board%20for%20Working%20Journalists.pdf
3. [3] https://thc.nic.in/Central%20Governmental%20Acts/Working%20Journalist%20and%20Other%20Newspaper%20Employees%20(%20Conditions%20of%20Service)%20and%20Miscellaneous%20Provisions%20Act,%201955.pdf