As per Section 18 of the Building
and Other Construction Workers (RECS) Act, 1996, the State Governments/UT
Administrations have constituted State Building and Other Construction Workers
Welfare Board for welfare of construction workers.
Under Section 22
of the Act, functions of the State Building and Other Construction Workers
Welfare Boards are as under:
(a)
provide
immediate assistance to a beneficiary in case of accident;
(b)
make
payment of pension to the beneficiaries who have completed the age
of sixty years;
(c)
sanction
loans and advances to a beneficiary for construction of a houses not exceeding
such amount and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed;
(d)
pay
such amount in connection with premia for Group Insurance Scheme of the
beneficiaries as it may deem fit;
(e)
give
such financial assistance for the education of children of the beneficiaries as
may be prescribed;
(f)
meet
such medical expenses for treatment of major ailments of a beneficiary or, such
dependent, as may be prescribed;
(g)
make
payment of maternity benefit to the female beneficiaries; and
(h)
make
provisions and improvement of such other welfare measures and
facilities as may be prescribed.
The State
Governments/UT Administrations have formulated their own schemes in terms of
Section 22 of the Act.
Levy and
collection of cess on the cost of construction incurred by employers under the
Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996, is provided
with a view to augmenting the resources of the Building and Other Construction
Workers’ Welfare Boards. Cess funds are utilized by the State Building and
Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Boards for the welfare of construction
workers. Central Government has issued directions under Section 60 of the
Building and Other Construction Workers (RECS) Act, 1996 to ensure that the
cess is exclusively utilized for the welfare of construction workers.
This
information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in written reply to a question in Rajya
Sabha today.
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