Haryana Government will start five more concessional canteens in the State, with a view to provide food to labourer at Rs 10.“These will be set up in Panchkula, Ambala, Panipat, Karnal and Bhiwani. At present, such canteens are functioning in Sonipat, Gurugram, Yamunanagar, Faridabad and Hisar districts,” said Haryana Minister of State for labour and Employment, Nayab Singh Saini, here on Thursday.
The Department is in touch with Urban local bodies to provide land for labour chowk in those cities, which donot have labour chowk and department would provide all basic amenities, he said.The Minister said that a special campaign to register building and construction labour would be launched from July 2-31 in the state.
The registered workers would be entitled for the benefit of various labour schemes launched by the government.
He said that before the present government took over the reins, only 7,497 such labours were registered, and the number has now increased to 1, 20,908.