Delhi government to organise camps to register construction workers

NEW DELHI: Delhi government will run month-long district-level camps to reach out to construction workers who do not figure in government records and register them. All the districts will organise special camps for the purpose.

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Delhi government had announced financial help and given it to thousands, but many construction workers were left out because they were not registered.

Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board will be organising registration camps for the welfare of workers in different districts from February 15 to March 15.

The camps will be organised in North-West, North, South, East, North-East, South-West, West, Central and New Delhi districts, according to an order issued by the office of labour commissioner.

Delhi government provides various schemes and benefits under the building and other constructions workers (regulation of employment and conditions of service) act.

To avail these benefits, the workers must be registered with the welfare board. Currently, 52,000 live members exist in the system while 66,000 are registered but pending for verification.

Delhi government had in October 2020 announced that it would register 10 lakh construction workers to enable them to get the benefits of various government welfare schemes.

The registration work started through all its labour offices. Instructions were given to labour department officials to make sure not a single worker should be left unregistered.