Haryana Minister of State for labour and Employment, Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday said the Government has opened 22 mobile crèche or day care centres, 23 mobile toilets and four labour welfare centres to provide facility to the children of labourers working on construction sites in the State.
The Minister said that for proper care and nutrition of these children, this facility has been provided near the construction sites. Arrangements are being done to run minimum two mobile crèches or day care centres on such sites, for which provision of Rs 10 crore has been provided.
These mobile crèches or day care centres have been started in districts Rewari, Mahendragarh, Gurugram, Faridabad, Panchkula, Hisar, Bhiwani, Jind and Sirsa, he said.
The Minister said that under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the facility of mobile toilets are being provided at various labour chowks, HUDA and other small construction sites and near residential area of labourers. For this, a provision of Rs 5 crore has been provided during a meeting of Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board. Arrangement of minimum two mobile toilets has been made on such sites.
These mobile toilets have been started in districts Panipat, Karnal, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonepat, Gurugram, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Ambala, Panchkula, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Kaithal, Hisar, Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Faridabad and Palwal, he said.
Saini said that labour welfare centres have been opened in Manesar, Sikandarpur (Gurugram), NIT Faridabad and old Faridabad. Besides this, labour sheds have been constructed on labour chowk in Yamunanagar, Faridabad, Hansi and Julana. Healthcare facility is also being provided for labourers on construction sites and near their residential areas by the Health Department, he added.