NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL LEGISLATION ON CONSTRUCTION LABOUR vs UNION OF INDIA

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2010 Supreme(SC) 847

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL LEGISLATION ON CONSTRUCTION LABOUR – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Vivek K. Tankha (Amicus Curiae), Additional Solicitor General, Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate (Ms Mrunal Buva and Ms Jyoti Mendiratta, Advocates) for the Petitioner;
Vivek K. Tankha Additional Solicitor General, Dr. Manish Singhvi, Additional Advocate General, J. Anand, Additional Advocate General (Pb.), A. Mariarputham, Advocate General (Sikkim) [Riku Sarma (for M/s Corporate Law Group), Arun K. Sinha, Pratul Shandilya, Rishabh Sancheti, Vaibhav Srivastava, Sumeer Sodhi, Ms Sunita Sharma, S.W.A. Qadri, Ms Gargi Khanna, Ms Sudha Pal, Ms Anil Katiyar, D.S. Mahra, S,N. Terdal, Ms Nandini Gore, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Rituraj Biswas, Vikrant Singh Bais, B.S. Banthia, Jatinder Kr. Bhatia, T.V. George, Radha Shyam Jena, Ranjan MukheIjee, Ms D. Bharati Reddy, Sanjay Kharde, Ms Asha Gopalan Nair, Pragyan P. Sharma, P.V. Yogeswaran, Ms Hemantika Wahi, Ms Nupur Kanungo, Anil Shrivastav, Kh. Nobin Singh, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Ms Aruna Mathur, Amarjeet Singh Girsa (for Mis Arputham Aruna & Co.), Naresh K. Sharma, Ms Radha Rangaswamy, Anil K. Jha, Santosh Kumar, Anis Suhrawardy; Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms Neelam Sharma, Ms Savitri Pandey, Shrish Kr. Misra, Ms Kamini Jaiswal, Sandeep S. Parekh, Abhimanue Shrestha, T. Harish Kumar, Devanshu Kr. Devesh, Sahil S. Chauhan, Milind Kumar, Balaji Srinivasan, Sanjliy R. Hegde, Abhishek Malviya, Ms A. Subhashini, Atul Jha, D.K. Sinha, Abhay Prakash Sahay, J.K. Bhatia, D.K. Goswami, V.G. Pragasam, SJ. Aristotle, Prabhu Rama Subramanian, Edward Belho, P. Athuimei R. Naga,K. Enatoli Serna, Kuldip Singh, Sunil Fernandes, Ms Renu Gupta, Sidhant Goel, Vikrant Nagpal, Manjit Singh, Kamal Mohan Gupta, G.N. Reddy and V. Pattabhi Ram, Advocates] for the Respondents.

ORDER

1. Time has come when this Court needs to enforce its orders containing guidelines in the matter of implementation of the provisions of the Building and Other Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 ("the 1996 Act", for short).

2. Under Section 60 of the 1996 Act, which is quoted hereinbelow, the Central Government is given the power in appropriate cases to issue directions to the Government of any State or to a Board as to the carrying into execution in that State of any of the provisions of the Act.

"60. Power of Central Government to give directions.- The Central Government may give directions to the Government of any State or to a Board as to the carrying into execution in that State of any of the provisions of this Act."

3. Vide order dated 18-1-2010, the previous Bench of this Court observed that in several States, Welfare Boards which are required to be constituted under Section 18 of the 1996 Act have not been constituted till date although the Act came into force a decade ago. We quote hereinbelow Section 18 of the 1996 Act:

"18. Constitution of State Welfare Boards.-Every State Government shall, with effect from such date as i

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2010 Supreme(SC) 847

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMARNATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL LEGISLATION ON CONSTRUCTION LABOUR – AppellantVersusUNION OF INDIA – Respondent

Cases Referred (1)

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR CENTRAL LEGISLATION ON CONSTRUCTION LABOUR – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent