Mass Awareness Campaign

Construction workers maintain and improve our nation’s infrastructure, including vital energy and communication systems, roads and bridges, and social infrastructure. The construction sector is of vital importance to the Indian economy, contributing 7.7% to the country’s GDP, with a total size of Rs 10,640.68 billion in 2015-16.  It is one of India’s fastest growing sectors, with a CAGR of 10.3% in the decade between 2000–01 and 2010–11.

Construction Worker means a person who works in any building or construction work as a skilled, semi-skilled or for manual, clerical work, supervisor or technical, salary or remuneration as mistry, painter, plumber, welder, electrician, carpenter, laborer and helper etc. fall in the category of workers. A person working in a managerial or administrative position does not come under the definition of supervisor building and other construction workers.
According to Section 2D of the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996, building or other construction work means buildings, roads, roads, railways, tramways, airports, irrigation, drainage, flood control works, Rainwater drainage works, generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, water related works (including channels for distribution of water),, oil and gas installation related works, electric lines, wireless radios, televisions, telephones, wires and Overseas communication media, dams, canals, reservoirs, tunnels, pipes Lines, towers, cooling towers, transmission towers are included in the construction works.
The Himachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Worker Welfare Board is implementing various scheme for the welfare of workers. It is observed that numbers of workers are not getting benefits of the board as they are not aware of registration and processes. The workers are not even aware of such schemes. The HP Building & other Construction worker welfare board has provided opportunity of conducting awareness camp at panchayat level to the PLAN Foundation.
We have conducted Panchayat level awareness camps in Shimla, Hamirpur, Chamba and Kullu district covering more than 70,000 people.