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|August 2020
Welfare boards have failed to protect India’s construction workers

On 24 March, the union labour ministry advised state governments and union-territory administrations to use unspent funds lying with their Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Boards to provide financial assistance to construction workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a government press release, the BOCW boards cumulatively had about ₹52,000 crore available. The funds had been collected under the BOCW Welfare Cess Act, 1996, under which employers must pay between one to two percent of construction costs to maintain boards created to implement safety, health and welfare schemes for construction workers.
A couple of days later, noting that some state governments had already earmarked a portion of their cess funds for routine welfare operations, a labour-ministry official clarified that the actual amount available with the boards for pandemic relief was ₹31,000 crore. During a press conference on 8 April, Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the home ministry, claimed that state governments had announced emergency cash assistance ranging from a thousand to six thousand rupees per worker, and that over 20 million registered workers had received cash payments.
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