Assistant Labour Commissioner office, Kathua in coordination with state working committee, Central Indian Trade Union (CITU) held an awareness camp at Panchayat Ghar, Chak Nathal, Sanji Morh, Chadwal. The main aim of the camp was to generate awareness among building/construction workers regarding their registration as beneficiaries with the J&K Building and other Construction Workers’ Board, Jammu and to educate them in respect of various legal formalities they are required to fulfill to become eligible for registration.
Assistant Labor Commissioner, Kathua, Ashok Kumar Choudhary, apprised a group of around 200 workers present in the camp, about various schemes framed by the Board for the welfare of registered construction/building workers and the ways and means to avail them. The officers at the camp exhorted the workers to take full advantage of the welfare measures. Showing concern over the fact of some unscrupulous elements take undue advantage of the welfare legislation, the Assistant Labor Commissioner, Kathua cautioned such people that doing so may land them in legal troubles in terms of law regulating the whole mechanism.
ALC, Kathua encouraged the workers present at the camp to report the cases of wrong registrations, if any, to the office so that such people could be weeded out from the record and legal action is initiated against them to maintain the sanctity of registration and benefits accruing with it. He expressed concern over the fact of genuine workers suffering more scrutiny of their credentials as building/construction workers on account of ineligible people wrongly trying to garner the monetary benefits available under the welfare schemes. Others present in the camp were Labour Officer, Kathua, Pawan Mansotra, Labour Inspector, Kathua, Kuldeep Raj Sharma and District Level members of working committee, CITU.