The top court further directed all the state governments and union territories to constitute an expert committee and bring out statutory rules within six months.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to frame a model scheme before September 30 to address the issues of education, health, social security<\/p>\n
and pension for construction workers, saying they build not just infrastructure, but also the nation.<\/p>\n
The top court said that more than Rs 37,400 crore have been collected for the benefit of construction workers, but ostensibly only about Rs. 9,500 crores have<\/p>\n
been utilized for their benefit.
\nIt questioned as to why millions of construction workers across the country are being denied the benefit of remaining Rs 28,000 crore.<\/p>\n
The top court further directed all the state governments and union territories to constitute an expert committee and bring out statutory rules within six months.<\/p>\n
A bench of Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said the directions given by the court from time-to-time to implement the two laws — The Building and Other<\/p>\n
Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (BOCW Act) and the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare<\/p>\n
Cess Act, 1996, (Cess Act) — have been flouted with impunity.<\/p>\n
The top court said that the every state government and Union Territory shall constitute an expert committee and frame statutory rules under provisions of the<\/p>\n
BOCW Act, if such statutory Rules have not already been framed.<\/p>\n
“Setting up an expert committee and framing statutory rules should be in a time-bound manner, with the exercise being completed preferably within six months<\/p>\n
and in any event by September 30, 2018,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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