Amendment in West Bengal Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Scheme

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

LABOUR DEPARTMENT

L.W.BRANCH

No. Labr. / 256 / (LC-LW)                                                        Kolkata, the 3rd April, 2017

       LW / 5M - 112 / 16

AMENDMENT

          The scheme for construction workers has been formulated and introduced in the year 2006 under the relevant provisions of the Building and Other Construction Workers ( Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service ) Act, 1996 and Rules framed thereunder. The scheme is administered by the West Bengal Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board constituted under the said Act.

2. The said Board introduced various social security benefits to the Building and Other Construction workers like Hospitalization and Disablement benefit, Medical benefit, Maternity benefit, Death benefit including normal and accidental death, Pension scheme - self / family pension, Invalid pension, Financial Assistance for education of self / children of beneficiaries etc.

3. The Government for sometime past was contemplating to merge these benefits except the pension component available to building & other construction workers into a single and consolidated social security scheme for all the unorganized workers including building & other construction workers and the transport workers.

4. Accordingly, after careful consideration of the matter, the Governor has been pleased to revise the benefits as provided to the building and other construction workers and their families under the existing scheme to the extent as mentioned below:

Benefits	Amount (in Rs.)
Pension
For beneficiary	@750/- only p.m. with an increase of Rs 10/- only for each completed year of enrolment as a beneficiary in excess of five years
Family	@50% of the amount last drawn by the beneficiary
Other welfare measures
Invalid pension	Rs. 750/- per month

5. All other provisions of the existing scheme except relating to benefits under Para - 4 are repealed.

6. This revised scheme will be effective from 1st April 2017.

7. This notification is issued with concurrence of the Finance Department vide their U.O. No. Group L / 2016-2017 dated 21.03.2017

By order of the Governor,

Sd/- Gopal Krishna

Additional Chief Secretary to the

Government of West Bengal

Labour Depart Ment