All industries falling under the categories of dangerous and highly-dangerous in the State should be registered. If industry owner does not apply for licence, information of the industry can be taken from other sources and get it registered. Such industries should be brought under proper monitoring.
Registration is required to curb accidents and protect workers’ interest as well. Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection and labour, Omprakash Dhurve issued these instructions to officials in Indore.
labour Commissioner KC Gupta, Additional Commissioner RG Pandey and Director, Industrial Health and Safety PD Narya were present in the meeting taken by Minister Dhurve.
Dhurve said that there is need of proper monitoring of such industries for prevention of accidents and protection of workers’ interests.
Registration of dangerous and highly dangerous industries is essential. Some of the dangerous industries neither gets registration nor apply to industrial health and safety Department.
Information about such industries can be taken from district administration or at the place where they are operational.
The information these industries can be taken from police, income tax, sales tax and electricity Department.The Minister said that MANREGA labourers, who have online record of 90 days working, should be registered in Building Construction Workers Board.
It leads to provide benefits to such labourers under various upliftment and developmental schemes.Minister Dhurve asked to get construction cess from MGNREGA. He said more innovations, new schemes and programmes can be introduced to protect labourers’ interests and for their welfare.