THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Director General of Labour Welfare, Government of India, Anil Swaroop has said that the Central Government is favouring the decision to treat migrant labourers as temporary residents of their respective work places. Addressing a workshop organised here under the aegis of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on the topic of enrolling construction workers in the RSBY scheme, he said that it was important to ensure that the real labourers got the benefits of the labour welfare measures of the government. He pointed out that under the given circumstances it was not feasible for the migrant labourers to be enrolled as members in the Building Construction Welfare Board. But at the same time it was the migrant labourers who were mostly engaged in the construction works. He opined that the Central Government should take steps to make accident benefits from Welfare Boards easily available to the dependents of a migrant worker who dies in an accident. And also to revoke the present formalities of having to produce a copy of the FIR and an inquest report. He also said that the conditions necessitating a government doctor’s certificate for a worker to claim assistance for any handicap he might have sustained in an accident also should be revoked. He said that the certificates issued from hospitals under the RSBY/CHIS scheme should also be made valid. Labour Minister Shibu BabyJohn inaugurated the workshop. ILO officials, representatives of NGOs, and labour commissioners from various states also attended the workshop.
Comments
0 comment