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.

 

                                                  

Annexure –I

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 & N Island			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

 

This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Union Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

 

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