The Building and Other Construction Workers Scheme, also known as BOCW Scheme, is a scheme introduced that assists unskilled labourers by helping them solve issues related to their intensive work and unfavourable conditions. This scheme is for citizens employed in infrastructure construction labour work who are categorized under unorganized labourers who are accustomed to working in accident-prone work environments and with a higher risk of irregular working hours, insecure employment, with insufficient availability of definite welfare facilities which disconsolate their daily survival.

Why was BOCW Scheme introduced?

As there were no proper definitive legal provisions, it was quite a hassle to obtain legal help related to accidents and the employer providing work responsibilities to their workers. There was also the unavailability of an instrumental method to disseminate work properly. It was necessary to establish laws dedicated to the safety of the labourers being employed and to establish definite welfare facilities and required essential services properly.

The government’s aim while introducing this scheme was to improve the labourers by providing financial help under multiple schemes, providing laws that protect their safety while working in high-risk accident-prone construction sites and benefiting them by improving the quality of living standards of their daily survival.

The purpose of the #BOCWScheme and The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 –

This act was established to observe the work environment of labourers employed for infrastructure construction work. This act is beneficial for implementing laws against robust work durations and sturdy working conditions.

The BOCW Scheme is a social welfare scheme introduced to support providing financial help and health benefits for workers employed for infrastructure construction work.

The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 helps in regulating the employment and working conditions for labourers employed for infrastructure construction work, especially on issues related to workers’ health, safety and welfare.

The BOCW Scheme is essential to ensure that the labourers employed for infrastructure construction work are not exploited and maintain a decent work environment.

This act is issued by the Government of India for all the State Governments for mandatory constitution of their own respective state’s BOCW welfare boards.

One of the essential functions of the BOCW Scheme is to provide the workers employed for infrastructure construction work with immediate assistance in case of any workplace accident, the help in regard to the issuance of loans for construction of the personal home, payment of insurance schemes, assisting financially for their children’s expenses related to educational fees, assisting in medical bills for workers employed and providing pensions for #Labourers employed for infrastructure construction work.

The required age is from eighteen to sixty, and to have been working as a construction worker for a minimum of ninety days in the previous year for qualification for registering as a BOCW Welfare Fund Recipient under the BOCW Act. The registration fee for applying for registration cannot be more the fifty rupees. Application for registration is to be applied to the authorized officer appointed on the board’s behalf.

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