National Campaign Committee For Central Legislation For Construction Labour (Ncccl) Coordinator Shri Subhash Bhatnagar vs. Union Of India Ministry Of Labour And Employment Labour Secretary

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ITEM NO.301 COURT NO.9 SECTION PIL(W)

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).318/2006

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMTT., C.L., LABOUR Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS Respondent(s)

(With appln.(s) for directions and exemption from filing O.T. and impleadment and office report) (for final disposal)

WITH

CONMT.PET.(C) No. 52/2013 in W.P.(C) No. 318/2006

Date : 16/10/2015 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT

Mr. Vivek K. Tankha, Sr. Adv. (A.C.) Mr. Varun K. Chopra, Adv. For Petitioner(s) Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Mr. Divya Jyoti Jaipuriar, Adv.

Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR

Ms. Manita Verma, Adv. Mr. Bharat Singh, Adv. Mr. Harish Khinchi, Adv. Mr. S. Wasim A. Qadri, Adv.

Mr. Zaid Ali, Adv. Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Ms. Gunwant Dara, Adv.

For Respondent(s) Union of India/ Mr. Maninder Singh, ASG Delhi Mr. Amarjeet Singh, Adv.

Signature Not Verified Mr. Shreekant N. Terdal, AOR Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar Mr. D.S. Mahra, Adv. Date: 2015.10.17 12:47:41 IST Reason:

Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Adv. Ms. Swati Vaibhav, Adv. 2

Mr. Bhaskar Das, Adv.

For States of

Assam Mr. Navnit Kumar, Adv. Ms. Deepika Ghatowar, Adv. for M/s. Corporate Law Group

Arunachal Pradesh		Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR<br>Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.
Bihar		Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Chandan Kumar, Adv.
Chhattisgarh		Mr. C.D. Singh, AAG<br>Mr. Sandeepan Pathak, Adv.
Gujarat		Ms.<br>Hemantika Wahi, AOR<br>Ms.<br>Jesal Wahi, Adv.<br>Ms.<br>Puja Singh, Adv.<br>Ms.<br>Vinakshi Kadan, Adv.
Haryana		Ms. Nupur Choudhary, Adv.<br>Mr. T.V. George, Adv.
H.P.		Mr. Suryanaryana Singh, Sr. AAG<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, Adv.
J&K		Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Adv.<br>Ms. Mithu Jain, Adv.<br>Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv.
Jharkhand		Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, AOR<br>Mr. R.K. Ojha, Adv.
Karnataka		Mr. Lagnesh Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Parikshit Angadi, Adv.<br>Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR
Kerala		Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, Adv.<br>Mr. Vijai Kumar, Adv.<br>Ms. Bina Madhavan, AOR
Madhya Pradesh		Mr. Vikas Bansal, Adv.<br>Mr. Mishra Saurabh, Adv.
Maharashtra		Mr. preshit Surshe, Adv.<br>for Mr. Nishant Katneshwarkar, Adv.
Manipur		Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR<br>3
		Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Vijayanand Sharma, Adv.<br>Ms. B. Khusbansi, Adv.
Meghalaya		Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR<br>Mr. Subhro Sanyal, Adv.
Mizoram	Mr.<br>Mr.<br>Mr.<br>Mr.<br>Mr.<br>Mr.	Pragyan Sharma, Adv.<br>Shikhar Garg, Adv.<br>P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR<br>T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv.<br>R.V.L. Raghavn, Adv.<br>Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Nagaland		Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv.<br>Mr. Edward Belho, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR
Odisha		Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR<br>Mr. Uma Kant Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Adv.

Punjab Mr. Ajay Bansal, AAG Mr. Vijendra Khurana, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Yadava, Adv. Rajasthan Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG Mr. Ishu Prayash, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Sikkim Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. for M/s Arputham Aruna & Co. Tamil Nadu Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. R. Rakesh Sarma, Adv. Tripura Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Uttar Pradesh Mr. V.K. Shukla, AAG Mr. Vibhu Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, AOR Uttarakhand Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. 4 A&N Islands Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. Balasubramaniam, Adv. Puducherry Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, AOR Mr. B. S. Banthia, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR

Mr. Shrish Kumar Misra, AOR

Mrs. Nandini Gore, AOR

Mr. Tara Chandra Sharma, AOR

Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR

Mr. Ashok Kumar Juneja, Adv.

Mr. Chand Qureshi, Adv.

Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR

Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR Ms. Radha Rangaswamy, AOR 5

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

We have heard learned counsel for the parties including Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Government of India.

We have also gone through the affidavit filed by Mr. Shankar Aggarwal on 9th October, 2015 and the additional affidavit handed over to us in Court today.

At the outset, we would like to make it clear that the respondents do not need the approval of this Court for going ahead in any of their Schemes.

Apart from that, during the course of discussions, it has come out that there are five key areas on which the Central Government needs to concentrate for the time being. These are:

• (i) to ensure maximum coverage of the building and other construction workers;
• (ii) to ensure distribution of benefits and implementation of the Schemes that are in existence for the benefit of the building and other construction workers;
• (iii) to lay greater emphasis on education and provide educational facilities to the children of the building and other construction workers; 6
• (iv) to provide health benefits and insurance of the building and other construction workers and their families;
• (v) to activate the State Advisory Boards which, as per the affidavit, have not even met in the last

several years.

Mr. Shankar Aggarwal assures us that necessary steps will be taken in this regard with due promptitude and diligence. He assures us that some positive results will be shown on or before the next date of hearing.

Under the circumstances, we adjourn the matters to 22nd January, 2016.

The status report may be filed not later than 15 th January, 2016 with a copy to learned amicus curiae and learned counsel for the petitioner.

Needless to say, we expect the State Governments and the Union Territories to assist the Central Government in the implementation of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and the Building and Other Construction workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (JASWINDER KAUR) AR-CUM-PS COURT MASTER