Friday, February 8, 2013

6000 workers get financial benefits in Haryana



By Haryananewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, FEB 8
More than 6,000 workers in Haryana have been benefitted to the tune of over Rs 15  crore under various welfare schemes being implemented for building and other construction workers so far during the tenure of the present State Government.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of Labour Department said that for the welfare of registered building and other construction workers, schemes like Health Insurance Plan on the pattern of RSBY, death benefit, funeral assistant, Kanya Dan Scheme, education scholarship and maternity scheme   were being implemented by the Constitution of the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.
He said that apart from this, facilities of mobile  crèches and toilets, medical dispensary vans, labour sheds at labour chowks where such workers are assembled for their daily employment are also available to the workers.
He said that the Government has notified the Building and Other Construction Workers Rules, 2005 under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of employment and conditions of service) Act, 1996. The present Government had constituted Constitution of the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board. The main source of income of this Board is collection of cess at a rate of one per cent  of the cost of construction incurred by an employer including public sector undertaking which is exclusively spent for the welfare of registered construction workers in the State. The benefit is admissible to those such workers who get themselves registered after paying Rs 25 as registration fee,once in life, and further contribution of Rs five per month. As many as 1.70 lakh construction workers have sofar  been registered, he added.

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