Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 18
The Labour Department is successfully implementing the Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, according to the department’s annual administrative report 2015-16 which was presented by Parliamentary Secretary Mmhonlumo Kikon in the assembly today.
As mandated under the Act, the department has constituted Nagaland Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, which has formulated number of welfare programmes to benefit the registered workers, the report stated.
One of the prerequisites for the Welfare Board is to register workers engaged in building and other construction in the state. The Welfare Board is conducting awareness campaigns throughout the state regularly to educate the workers to get registered under the Welfare Board as a beneficiary so they can avail welfare schemes formulated to provide them social security. 4,271 construction workers have been registered under the Welfare Board and the registration drive is continuing in all the districts, the report stated.
The report said that an amount of Rs. 3,19,28,908 have been released as assistance under different welfare schemes formulated by the Welfare Board, which has started capacity building programmes specially targeted at the local work force to enhance their skills. It has also started monitoring and evaluation of the workers in collaboration with M/s Zynorique Initiatives to track the actual local workers and encourage them by providing inputs and also required tools and machineries which is expected to enhance their earning capacity, the report added.
Nagaland Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board benefits
*Grant for purchase of tools: Rs. 1000 as grant for purchase of tools.
*Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY): The beneficiaries get automatic insurance cover under AABY through Life Insurance Corporation of India. The annual premium is paid by the Welfare Board in respect of each registered beneficiaries. Benefits: Natural death - Rs. 30,000, accidental death - Rs. 75,000, permanent total disability - Rs. 75,000 (Loss of 2 eyes or 2 limbs or loss of one eye and one limb due to accident), Loss of one eye or one limb in an accident - Rs. 37,000.
*Medical assistance: Medical assistance to beneficiary, spouse and children on hospitalization due to accident or any sickness shall be Rs. 1000 per day for the first five days and Rs. 200 per day for the remaining 10 days.
*Children education allowance: One child of the beneficiary studying in nursery to standard 10 will be provided Rs. 200 scholarship per month.
*Maternity benefit for women beneficiaries: Maternal benefit of Rs. 5000 per pregnancy (subject to a maximum of two times) will be provided to the women registered beneficiaries.
