Medical assistance of Rs 5 lakh to workers
Shimla. If a worker becomes unwell or disabled while carrying out construction work, an amount of up to Rs 5 lakh is being provided to him as medical aid. Labor and Employment Minister Dr. Colonel Dhaniram Shandil was speaking in the meeting of the Board of Directors of Workers Welfare Board on Wednesday. The 43rd meeting of the Board of Directors of Himachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board was held on Wednesday at Himachal Holiday Home, Shimla. The meeting was presided over by Dr. Colonel Dhaniram Shandil, Minister of Labor and Employment and Health and Family Welfare. In the meeting of the Board of Directors, the accounts for the financial year 2022-23 and the Annual Plan Report 2021-22 were approved. It was decided to hire taxis to the Directorate Welfare Board and field inspection, workshop, registration and to the workers welfare officers under the e-taxi scheme, while it was decided to pay the pending bills of about Rs 4 crore 82 lakh of various firms. .
In the meeting, discussions were held on purchasing furniture for smooth functioning of zonal offices, getting the transit hostel built for workers in Haroli whitewashed, handing over the Skill Development Workshop Institute to IT and IIIT, pension to the registered workers after ten years of registration. More than 25 issues including providing facilities, purchasing two laptops, terminating the services of outsourced employees as per requirement and extension of service of data entry operator as per requirement were discussed in detail in the meeting of the Board of Directors. Various audit objections raised by the audit department were discussed in detail in the meeting of the Board of Directors. The Cabinet Minister issued necessary guidelines for expeditious disposal of audit objections. On this occasion, Chief Executive Officer of Workers Welfare Board Rajiv Kumar, Sharad Kumar, Vishal Jaiswal, Ramesh Ratan, Rajkumar, Nishi Bhatt, Bhupendra, Hema Tanwar, Jagdish Chandra Bhardwaj, Pradeep Thakur, Ravindra Singh, Sanjeev Sood and Manoj Gupta etc. were also present. are.
