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COVID-19 lockdown : J-K LG releases funds for construction workers
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Mar 25 (ANI): Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu on Wednesday directed Labour and Employment Department to release Rs 1000 to each of 3.50 lakh workers for the purchase of ration during the 21 days lockdown period.
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Labour Minister directs state govts, UTs to transfer funds to 3.5
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 24 (ANI): Union Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Tuesday issued an advisory for all the state and UT governments asking them to transfer funds to the 3.5 crore construction workers in the country in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
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COVID-19: Delhi govt to give Rs 5000 to each construction worker
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 24 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced Rs 5,000 for each construction worker under Construction Workers Welfare Board Fund as their livelihood has been affected due the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.
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Sonia writes to PM Modi, seeks emergency welfare measures for cons
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 24 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll out "emergency welfare measures" for the construction sector workers.
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COVID-19: Punjab announces Rs 3,000 relief for each construction w
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Mar 22 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday announced an immediate relief of Rs 3,000 each for all registered construction workers in the state in a bid to provide relief to them in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
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Rs 1,000 each to be given to 15 lakh daily wage labourers, 20.37 l
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 21 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that an amount of Rs 1,000 each will be given to 15 lakh daily wage labourers and 20.37 lakh construction workers across the state via direct benefit transfer.
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Restoration work begins in schools burnt in Delhi violence
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): The restoration work of the two schools in north-east Delhi, which were burnt during the violence last week, began on Monday even as construction workers are hard to find in the area.
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Ban burqa, terrorists use it to enter India, says Raghuraj Singh
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Chairman of Committee of Building and Other Construction Workers, Labour Department Raghuraj Singh on Monday stoked controversy, while demanding that the Centre and the state government should impose a ban on 'burqa'.
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Eating habits of construction workers created suspicion over their
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 24 (ANI): BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has said that he suspected that there were some 'Bangladeshi workers' among construction labourers working at his house as they had 'strange eating habits'.
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Bus passes for construction workers in Haryana
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Jan 16 (ANI): Haryana government will provide free bus passes to construction workers to travel to their work place from their homes in the state transport buses.
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Andhra Pradesh: JSP Chief demands compensation for families of con
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Nov 5 (ANI): Jana Sena Party (JSP) Chief Pawan Kalyan on Monday demanded the state government to pay compensation to the families of construction workers who have allegedly committed suicide in the wake of current slowdown in the sector due to shortag
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Construction workers most likely to use drugs: Study
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 30 (ANI): Among all other professions, construction workers are most likely to use drugs such as opioids and cocaine, suggests a recent study.
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