PANAJI
Chief Secretary Parimal Rai has been named chairperson of a State-level monitoring committee which will oversee the registration of unorganised labour and implementation of welfare measures for them.
The committee also has secretaries to the government of 12 other departments including labour, Information Technology, Rural Development, Panchayat, Health Agriculture, Industries Trade and Commerce, Urban Affairs, Women & Child Development, Information and Publicity, Education, Social Welfare and Fisheries.
Labour commissioner and some officers of the central government including the Welfare and Cess Commissioner, Nagpur and some representatives of trade unions and organisations of unorganised traditional occupations like toddy-tappers, fishermen, are also part of the committee.
It is mandated to review and monitor the process of registration of unorganised workers with the district collectors, mobilization of target sub-group of unorganised workers such as MGNREGA workers, SHG members under NRLM/NULM, street vendors, rickshaw-pullers, construction (BOCW) workers, mid-day meal workers, domestic workers, ASHA Workers, Anganwadi workers, agriculture labourers, fishermen and brick-kin workers.
