With the objective of providing welfare benefits and security at work to the workers engaged in the construction industry, the government of India enacted the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and conditions of Service) Act, 1996. As per the legislation, the Karnataka State Government has framed Rules, constituted State Welfare Board and planned the welfare scheme in 2006. The paper documents the findings of survey conducted in Bangalore and Tumkur which shows how workers remain deprived of the welfare benefits due to multiple reasons.
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