Union Minister for Labour & Employment, Sh.
Mallikarjuna Kharge has called upon the State Governments to ensure
proper implementation of schemes launched for the Building and
construction workers in their states. Shri Kharge was inaugurating the
23rd The National Convention of Indian National Building
Construction Forest and Wood Workers Federation here in New Delhi
today. The Minister said Labour being in the concurrent list the
responsibility of implementation part rests with the state Governments
and hence it necessitates cooperation on all counts. He said government
is committed to redress the workers problems amicably.
Shri Kharge said it is the need of hour that proper awareness on the
rights of Building and Construction workers be generated and steps be
taken to protect their just demands.
The Minister said as per the NSSO survey there are nearly 25.71 million
workers engaged in the Building and Construction related works of them
only about 75 lakh workers have been registered so far. He said the
State Governments have collected approximatelyRs.5609 crore as taxes and
of this only Rs. 770 crore have been spent on the welfare schemes meant
for the workers.
The other speakers included Union Minister of Statistics and Programme
Implementation Shri Srikant Jena, Union Minister of Development of
North East Region Shri Pawan Singh Ghatowar and Minister of State for
Agriculture and Food Processing Shri Harish Rawat.
Indian National Building Construction Forest and Wood Workers
Federation INBCWF) is a part of The Indian National Trade Union
Congress (INTUC) and is affiliated with BWI (Geneva).
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