TMI BlogRs. 31734 Crore Collected as Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess till 31st December 2016X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Rs. 31734 Crore Collected as Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess till 31st December 2016 X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f Labour & Employment 16-March-2017 13:13 IST ₹ 31733.76 crore have been collected as Construction Workers' Welfare Cess by the States/UTs upto 31.12.2016, at the rate of 1% of the cost of con ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... struction. Out of it ₹ 6872.51 crore has been spent. The Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act, 1996, provides for levy and collection of cess at such rate not exceeding two ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... per cent but not less than one per cent of the cost of construction as the Central Government may notify. The cess has been levied and being collected at the rate of 1% of the cost of construction as ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette. The cess at the above rate is collected by the State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations and utilized for the welfare of the buil ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ding and other construction workers by the State Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Boards constituted by the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations under the Building and Othe ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996. This information was given by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State (IC) for Labour and Employment, in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
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