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Jharkhand

Report No. 6 of 2024 : Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Welfare of Building and other Construction Workers

Date on which Report Tabled:
Thu 27 Feb, 2025
Date of sending the report to Government
Fri 01 Nov, 2024
Government Type
State
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Sector Social Welfare

Overview

Building and Other Construction Workers are the most numerous and vulnerable segments of unorganised labour in India. Their work is characterised by its casual nature, temporary relationship between the employers and employees, uncertain working hours, lack of basic amenities and inadequacy of welfare facilities.

To regulate the wages, working conditions, safety, health and welfare measures, applicable to such workers, the Government of India (GoI) enacted (August 1996) the Building and Other Construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service) Act (BOCW Act), 1996. The BOCW Act applies to every establishment which employs ten or more building workers. Every such establishment is to be registered, under the Act, within sixty days from the commencement of work. Further, under the Act, every State Government is required to constitute a Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, to provide benefits to every building worker, registered as a beneficiary under the Act, from its Fund. GoI also enacted (August 1996) the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (the Cess Act) which envisages levy and collection of cess, for the purpose of the BOCW Act.

The Government of Jharkhand (GoJ) notified (August 2007) the Building and Other Construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Jharkhand Rules, 2006 (the Jharkhand Rules) and constituted (July 2008) the Jharkhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (the Board). The Board operates a fund, known as the Jharkhand Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund.

Any establishment belonging to, or under the control of, Government, any body corporate or firm, an individual or association or other body of individuals, which or who employs building workers in any building or other construction work; and includes an establishment belonging to a contractor, but does not include an individual who employs such workers in any building or construction work in relation to his own residence, the total cost of such construction not being more than rupees ten lakh.

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