Government has raised its concern over poor implementation of the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act 1996, as the State and Union territories collected Rs 26,962.18 crore as construction cess to be solely spent on workers' welfare comes, but spent only, Rs 5,684.8 crore till March end this year.
The Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said that the responsibility of collecting cess and its utilization for welfare of workers lies with the respective state governments/UT administrations and state Building and other Construction Workers' Welfare boards and has asked the states to ensure that States Advisory Committees (SACs) under the law meet once every three months. SACs advice states on matters related to administration of legislations that are referred to them. The minister further pointed that “It has been noticed that SACs are not meeting regularly on account of which the implementation of the Act has suffered further.”
The Labour Ministry had directed states/UTs to constitute SACs through an order issued on October 23, as they play very important role in the implementation of the Building and Other Construction workers Act 1996 and Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act 1996. Under the Act real estate developers has to pay 1% of the total cost of construction of the building as cess. The cess is levied to augmenting the resources of the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board. The Act provides for regulating the employment and conditions of service of building and other construction workers and also provides for their safety, health and welfare measures and other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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