{"id":30499,"date":"2018-10-26T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:58:21","slug":"govt-apathy-towards-construction-workers-puts-shakespearean-tragedy-to-shame-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-apathy-towards-construction-workers-puts-shakespearean-tragedy-to-shame-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt apathy towards construction workers puts Shakespearean tragedy to shame: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-apathy-towards-construction-workers-puts-shakespearean-tragedy-to-shame-sc\/article23294814.ece\"><strong>Govt apathy towards construction workers puts Shakespearean tragedy to shame: SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SC\u2019s judgment on a public interest plea by the\u00a0National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour (NCC-CL)\u00a0seeking the enforcement of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many building and construction workers are there in India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government estimate shows there are over 4.5 crore building and construction workers in the country. As of now, 2.8 crore have been registered under the 1996 laws for welfare<\/p>\n<p>Observations made in the judgement<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A total of \u20b937,400 crore was collected for the benefit of construction workers over 22 years since 1996. Only \u20b99,500 crore was utilised for their benefit.\u20b928,000 crore meant for the\u00a0welfare\u00a0of construction workers lie stagnant with state governments<\/li>\n<li>State apathy in a situation such as this virtually amounts to exploitation of the construction workers, and if the state turns exploitative, there is little hope for vulnerable sections of society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions issued<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Issuing series of specific and\u00a0general directions\u00a0to\u00a0Union Labour and Employment Ministry\u00a0and the States and UTS, the court noted the directions passed by it from time to time have been &#8220;flouted with impunity&#8221; and similarly multiple directions issued by the Centre were &#8220;disregarded&#8221; by the states and UT administrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt apathy towards construction workers puts Shakespearean tragedy to shame: SC Context SC\u2019s judgment on a public interest plea by the\u00a0National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour (NCC-CL)\u00a0seeking the enforcement of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and the Building and Other Construction Workers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-apathy-towards-construction-workers-puts-shakespearean-tragedy-to-shame-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt apathy towards construction workers puts Shakespearean tragedy to shame: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704766479},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}