To sensitise construction and other workers on their social security, the Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD) in collaboration with the ActionAid and European Commission opened a labour facilitation centre at the Nayapalli labour stand here recently.
Chairman of Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board Subash Singh inaugurated the facility and informed that six to seven lakh construction workers have so far been enrolled in the Welfare Board and the board is also trying to enroll 30 lakh more labourers under its fold in near future.
The centre will work as a camp in different labour stands in the city. Among others, ActionAid Programme Manager Ghasiram Panda, ACP (Crime) laxmidhar Mohapatra, AICCTU general secretary Mahendra Parida and ex-Corporator Srubhransu Sekhar Pattanayak spoke. CCWD secretary Sadasiv Swain presided over the event.