Lok Sabha Question No. 1151 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-11
Subject: Facilities for Construction Labourers
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: ANIRUDHAN SAMPATH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1151 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2019

## FACILITIES FOR CONSTRUCTION LABOURERS

1151. DR. A. SAMPATH:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)the total number of labourers engaged in construction works and related fields  in  metropolitan  cities  of  the  country  along  with  the  facilities  of shelter homes or houses being provided to them, State/UT-wise; and

(b)the  details  and  share  of  assistance/aid  provided  by  State  and  Union engaged  in

- Governments  along  with  local bodies to the labourers construction sector across the country, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) & (b): The State-wise number of building or other construction workers, registered with the State Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare  Boards  under  Section  12  of  the  Building  and  Other  Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 is given at Annexure-I.

Section 34 of the Act makes it mandatory for the employer to provide, free of charges and within the work site or as near to it as may be possible,  temporary  living  accommodation,  with  separate  cooking  place, bathing, washing and lavatory facilities, to all building workers employed by him  for  such  period  as  the  building  or  other  construction  work  is  in progress. Further, in order to mitigate hardships that a BOC worker faces while  in  search  of  work,  the  States  have  been  advised  to  take  proactive steps  to  facilitate  transit  accommodation/labour  shed  cum  night  shelter, mobile  toilets  and  mobile  creches  to  such  BOC  workers  out  of  the  State BOCW welfare cess fund as prescribed. As the Act provides for State BOCW welfare cess fund for which a cess is levied and collected at the rate of 1% of the cost of construction by the State Governments under the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act, 1996, assistance/aid is not provided by the State and Central Governments out of their Budget.

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Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  parts  (a)  &  (b)  of  Lok  Sabha  Un-starred Question  No.  1151  for  11.02.2019  regarding facilities for  construction labourers by Dr. A. Sampath.

State-wise  details  of  number  of  building  workers  registered  with the  States  Building  and  Other  Construction  Workers  Welfare Boards up to 30.09.2018 (provisional):

| Sl. No.   | Name of the States/UTs   | No. of building workers registered with the Board   |
|-----------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh           | 18,15,889                                           |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh        | 30,841                                              |
| 3         | Assam                    | 1,43,574                                            |
| 4         | Bihar                    | 8,28,451                                            |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh             | 15,74,790                                           |
| 6         | Goa                      | 3,738                                               |
| 7         | Gujarat                  | 6,54,550                                            |
| 8         | Haryana                  | 7,63,373                                            |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh         | 1,47,932                                            |
| 10        | J&K                      | 3,42,295                                            |
| 11        | Jharkhand                | 7,96,146                                            |
| 12        | Karnataka                | 15,42,432                                           |
| 13        | Kerala                   | 14,91,300                                           |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh           | 29,96,227                                           |
| 15        | Maharashtra              | 9,89,018                                            |
| 16        | Manipur                  | 1,18,332                                            |
| 17        | Meghalaya                | 24,032                                              |
| 18        | Mizoram                  | 21,865                                              |
| 19        | Nagaland                 | 11,912                                              |
| 20        | Odisha                   | 22,34,569                                           |
| 21        | Punjab                   | 7,46,102                                            |
| 22        | Rajasthan                | 20,49,258                                           |
| 23        | Sikkim                   | 36,236                                              |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu               | 28,53,544                                           |
| 25        | Telangana                | 11,75,531                                           |
| 26        | Tripura                  | 99,762                                              |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh            | 42,08,744                                           |
| 28        | Uttarakhand              | 2,32,627                                            |
| 29        | West Bengal              | 31,01,362                                           |
| 30        | Delhi                    | 5,39,421                                            |
| 31        | A &NIsland               | 14,392                                              |
| 32        | Chandigarh               | 19,813                                              |
| 33        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      | 2,176                                               |
| 34        | Daman and Diu            | 5,149                                               |
| 35        | Lakshadweep              | 179                                                 |
| 36        | Puducherry               | 41,224                                              |
|           | Total                    | 3,16,56,786                                         |

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