G.O.Ms. No.90, Nomination of Chairman and Members of the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board, 2021

What the notification does

The Labour Welfare and Skill Development Department notification, G.O.Ms. No.90, Labour Welfare and Skill Development (I2), dated 28th June 2021, establishes the named membership of the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board. The Governor of Tamil Nadu made the nominations using powers under the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982.

The notification appoints Thiru. Ponkumar as Chairman and places the remaining nominees into three representative groups.

Government representatives

The Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board includes nine Government representatives. Key appointments include:

• Thiru. Ponkumar as Chairman.
• The Commissioner of Labour as a member.
• Senior Government officials from the Municipal Administration and Water Supply, Finance, Housing and Urban Development, Public Works, and Highways and Minor Ports Departments.
• The Director of the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health.
• The Regional Labour Commissioner of the Central Government.

Employer representatives

The Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board includes nine representatives of employers. They include:

• Chief Engineers from the Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board, Highways Department and Public Works Department.
• The Commissioner of Municipal Administration.
• Thiru. T. Padam Dugar, President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India.
• Thiru. R. Sivakumar and Thiru. L. Santhakumar of the Builders Association of India.
• Thiru. A. Shajahan Sait of MKMS Builders.

Manual worker representatives

The Tamil Nadu Construction Workers Welfare Board includes nine manual worker representatives. The nominees come from the Thozhilalar Munnetra Sanga Peravai, All India Trade Union Congress, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Marumalarchi Labour Front, All India Unorganised Workers Congress, Indian National Trade Union Congress and Labour Liberation Front.

Relevance to property and construction

G.O.Ms. No.90 concerns the composition of the welfare board connected with construction workers. It directly affects the named chairman and members, and is relevant to construction employers, worker organisations and public authorities represented on the Board. The notification does not create or change land ownership, planning permission, building approval or property registration requirements.