Procedures should be executed swiftly to ensure that the labourers get their money on time so that they may make timely use of it.
The State labour, Employment, MSME, Dairy Development, Khadi and Gramudyog Minister Harish Chandra Durgapal said this while chairing a review meeting with officials of the labour department, Employees State Insurance Scheme and Employee’s State Insurance Corporation, Government of India. Addressing officials of Uttarakhand and Employee’s State Insurance Corporation, he directed them to coordinate efforts with officials of the State Government to facilitate for those insured under the State Insurance Scheme, a 100-bed hospital in the SIIDCUl, Haridwar area, 100-bed hospital centre at Rudraprayag, a dispensary at Selaqui and a regional office of ESIC.
Eighty eight per cent of the expenditure for this will be borne by the Government of India while the State will contribute 12 per cent. The officials of ESIC informed the minister that the procedure has been started for entering a tripartite agreement involving the ESIC, Employee’s State Insurance Scheme, Uttarakhand and the hospitals for facilitating this. The minister directed officials to speed up the registration of labourers and to execute multi-purpose schemes on the lines of those implemented by the Haryana Government for welfare of the labourers. For the welfare of construction workers, cycles should be provided to construction labourers in the plains and sewing machines should be provided to them or their dependents in the mountainous regions. Durgapal directed the additional secretary, Finance to facilitate this.
He also directed the officials concerned to organise camps in areas with increased construction activity to conduct registration of construction workers, inform them about welfare schemes and facilitating the benefit of these schemes to them. The progress of departmental schemes, re-organisation of the departmental structure and other important issues were also discussed in the review meeting. The secretary, labour and Employment, RK Sudhanshu assured the minister that after examining it, the Personnel department will clear the departmental structure by January 31 this year. Additional secretary, Finance, Dilip Jawalkar assured the minister that approval will be facilitated from the Finance department for the schemes intended to facilitate welfare of labourers and their dependents.
Reviewing work of the Employment department, Durgapal called for a meeting with employment officers in the near future. He directed officials to ensure swift completion of e-registration in the State. Skill development programmes should be organised in all the districts and career counselling should also be provided to youth. He said that Rs18 crore had been spent on providing unemployment allowance to 26,188 persons in the State. The 4,000 youth who have not received the unemployment allowance yet will be provided the same after passing of the supplementary budget, he said.