J&K Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board

With the object to regulate the employment and conditions of service and to provide safety, health and welfare measures for the building and other construction workers, which is most vulnerable segment of the second largest unorganized labour sector in India after agriculture, the central Govt. has enacted the legislations, namely-“The Building and Other Construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996”. Further, the state Government under the said Act, has also framed the rules namely, “The J&K Building and Other Construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2006” as notified vide SRO-232 of 2006. Under section 18 of above stated Act, the State Government constituted the Board, namely ,”J&K Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board” in 2010 under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Minister for labour and employment and Representatives of Government and Workers in equal numbers.

1. Provide immediate assistance to a beneficiary in the case of accident.
2. Make payment of Pension to the beneficiaries who have completed the age of sixty years.
3. Sanction loans and advances to a beneficiary for construction of a house not exceeding such amount and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

Vide SRO 355 dated 7th October, 2015 and Govt. Order No. 36-L&E of 2017 dated 15-06-2017