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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How Delhi's Construction Workers Were Failed by Their Government-Run Welfare Board -Himanshu Upadhyaya

How Delhi's Construction Workers Were Failed by Their Government-Run Welfare Board -Himanshu Upadhyaya

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published Published on Jul 14, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 17, 2022

-TheWire.in

A recent CAG report paints a sobering picture of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board's performance.

A recently tabled Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has raised critical questions over the functioning of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board.

Let’s start with the most startling revelation. According to the national auditor, the welfare board, which comes under the Delhi government’s labour department, spent a meagre Rs 182.88 crore between September 2002 and March 2019. 

To put this in context, the board had Rs 3,273.64 crore at its disposal as of March 2019. This is money that the organisation accumulated through the collection of construction workers’ welfare cess, registration fees and interest earned on its investments. 

The next question that the CAG indirectly raises is over how much the Delhi board actually spent on COVID-19 relief during the first and second waves of the pandemic.

Referring to COVID-time cash assistance, the audit report states that an amount of Rs 38.36 crore was spent on construction workers, handed out to registered individuals in two instalments of Rs 5,000 each on March 24, 2020, and May 12, 2020. The first instalment disbursement was received by 37,127 registered workers and the second instalment disbursement was received by 39,600 registered workers.

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TheWire.in, 14 July, 2022, https://thewire.in/labour/delhi-construction-worker-welfare-board


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