Under Section 60 of the Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act, 1996, all states/UTs have been advised to transfer funds in the account of construction workers through direct benefit transfer mode. | Representational image
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B. Velankanni Raj
Directly release funds into their accounts to mitigate financial crisis, says Gangwar
Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Tuesday wrote to all Chief Ministers and Lieutenant-Governors asking them to directly release funds into the accounts of construction workers using the cess collected by their respective Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Boards.
The Minister wrote that the government was taking various measures to provide relie