Supreme Court orders for the complete implementation of Building and other construction workers Act and Cess Act

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The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice A.B. Patnaik and Justice Swatentar Kumar passed an order in contempt petition directing the CAG to submit its report within two months from today regarding the non-implementation of Building and other construction workers Act, 1996 where all the States and the union territories are made parties.

After long proceeding the Supreme Court itself asked the petitioner to file a contempt case against all the non complying states and the union territories. So the present Contempt Petition was filed under Section 2 (a) of the Contempt of Court Act, 1971 in violation of Hon’ble Court orders in NCCCL Vs Union of India & Others (WPC no. 318 of 2006) where the Hon’ble Court has directed the Respondents to set up the Welfare Boards as per the implementation of the Building And Other Construction Workers (Regulations Of Employment And Conditions Of Service) Act, 1996 (in short the Act) and The Building And Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act 1996 (in short the Cess Act) in the respective States and Union Territories in India.

The Hon’ble Court also directed the respondents to deposit the Cess amount which is to be collected from principal employer i.e. the construction companies in the Nationalized Banks only. And the cess is to be disbursed accordingly to the workers as per the appropriate section of the act from the Welfare Board account.