Govt notifies body to advise on contract workers’ problems

New Delhi, January 19

The Delhi Government has notified the Delhi Advisory Contract Labour Board, a body which will advise the government on problems of contract workers in the national Capital.

"In order to address various concerns of contract labour and to implement the provisions of Contract Labour Act, 1970, the government has notified the Delhi Advisory Contract Labour Board," said Labour Minister Gopal Rai in a statement.

"Although, the Contract Labour Act, 1970 provides for regulation and abolition of the contractual labour system but there are many organisations where contractual workers have been employed in jobs of perennial nature,” the statement added.

The government said that large scale violations have been reported by contract workers to labour department from time to time. — TNS