An awareness programme on facilities available for construction workers was held on behalf of the Odisha Forest, Wood, Agriculture and Building Construction Workers’ Union here on Thursday.
local MlA and Ganjam District Planning Committee (DPC) Chairman Ramesh Chandra Chyaupatnaik, District labour Officers Sibanarayan Sahu and Diptiranjan Mohanty graced the occasion as guests. Around 300 construction workers from all 22 blocks of the district attended the programme. They were informed about how to get registered with the State Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and avail benefits from different Government schemes meant for them.
As per norms, any worker who works for 90 days as a construction worker in a year can register his name with the District labour Officer by paying a fee of `20 and required documents. Once registered, a worker would avail all benefits from the Board on an annual payment of `50.
When a worker is injured in an accident during work, he or she would be provided from ` 200 to `1,000 daily for five days for treatment and stay in hospital. Similarly, if a worker becomes disable in the accident, he or she would be given assistance upto `1, 50, 000 and in case of death, family of the deceased get `2 lakh as assistance besides aid of `5,000 for cremation.