New Delhi, November 5
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday recommended to the Centre that a stipend or compensation be given to daily-wage labourers who have become unemployed as a result of the ban on construction activities to bring down the severe pollution levels in Delhi.
“Huge welfare funds are lying unused under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act. Can there be some stipend when construction is stopped?” a Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said.
The green panel said daily-wage workers who depend on construction sites to make a living are the worst sufferers of the ban on construction activities as they have been rendered jobless.
“Once construction is stopped, people involved in manual labour suffer the most. They become unemployed,” the Bench said.
Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Dev told the Bench that authorities are taking strict action against those burning waste. — PTI
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