Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday flagged off four ‘Namo Shramik Seva Kendra’ vans that will visit areas with large presence of workers to register them for providing coverage of various welfare schemes of the Delhi government.
The vans were flagged off as part of the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’ marking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday and his 25 years in public service.
Gupta said the initiative aims to ensure that workers do not have to make repeated trips to government offices to access government schemes and services.
The vans will function as a mobile service unit. It will provide workers with registration and renewal services in their own areas, information about government schemes, assistance with required documents, access to digital services, and guidance on government facilities and benefits.
The chief minister said one of the major challenges in ensuring that government schemes reach construction workers has been the lack of systematic registration.
A total of 13 vans are to be deployed in the coming days, with a van in each district, said a Delhi CMO statement.
These vans will visit construction sites, labour chowks and locations where construction workers are employed. Workers will be able to register on the spot through these mobile vans.
The construction workers are required to be registered with the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (DBOCWWB) to get benefits of Delhi government’s welfare schemes.
Delhi Labour Minister Kapil Mishra said that the construction workers in Delhi will no longer remain deprived of adequate information about registration and government schemes.
