Ensure facilities for your workers, builders told

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 17 

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri today asked the builders to ensure dignity of living for construction workers by providing necessary basic facilities.

He said this after releasing a commemorative stamp on the occasion of the 25 years of Indian Builders Congress (IBC) here today.

Puri reminded the 5,100 members of the IBC that it was their solemn responsibility to ensure decent living conditions with facilities for cooking, bathing and toilets for workers at construction sites under clause 19H of the General Contract Conditions and Contract Labour (Regulation) Act.

The minister said construction workers make big contribution to the economic growth of the country and deserve to be treated with dignity.

Noting that the IBC aims at improving the built environment, Puri said the living environment of workers at construction sites was equally important.

He said the real estate sector kept evolving with the progress of economic reforms and the resultant economic growth, but had run into hurdles due to inadequate self-regulation and lack of regulatory mechanism. This has necessitated the Real Estate Act that was made a reality by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government last year after eight long years it was first proposed.

He said the realty sector would soon settle at a new normal as all stakeholders are working at enabling such a new normal.