This writ petition is filed by M.E.S. Builders Association of India represented by its Secretary. It is claimed that the said Association is a registered association. Its parent body is having its registered office at New Delhi. The petitioner being the branch consisting of 46 members comprising of various builders undertaking contract work to Military Engineering Service. They have come forward to challenge the order of the fourth respondent Controller of Defence Accounts, dated 12.3.2010 as illegal and ultra vires to the Constitution of India.

2. By virtue of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (Central Act 27 of 1996) and more particularly under Section 18 of the said Act, the State Governments should constitute a Board known as Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, which board shall be a body corporation having perpetual succession and a common seal. The said Board as per proviso to Section 18(3), shall include an equal number of members representing the State Government, the employers and the building workers and that at least one member of the Board shall be a woman.

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