Bocw applicability

Susant kumar (Querist) 04 September 2023 This query is : Resolved
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Is BOCW applicable for lift installation company and electrical company working in a construction site?

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This discussion clarifies the applicability of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (BOCW). It confirms that companies involved in the maintenance of buildings, including lift installation and electrical work on construction sites, are generally covered under this Act. The definition of 'building or other construction work' explicitly includes maintenance and various other related activities, provided the work doesn't fall under the Factories Act or Mines Act.

kavksatyanarayana (Expert) 05 September 2023
The declination of “building or other construction work” under the BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1996 covers your business under the maintenance of the building. Hence you are covered under the Act. The text of the definition is produced below “Building or other construction work”- means the construction, alteration, repairs, maintenance or demolition- of or, in relation to, buildings, streets, roads, railways, tramways, airfields, irrigation, drainage, embankment and navigation works, flood control works (including stormwater drainage works), generation, transmission and distribution of power, water works (including channels for distribution of water), oil and gas installations, electric lines, wireless, radio; television, telephone, telegraph and overseas communication dams, canals, reservoirs, watercourses, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, pipelines, towers, cooling towers, transmission towers and such other work as may be specified in this behalf by the appropriate Government, by notification but does not include any building or other construction work to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), or the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), apply;

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Expert) 06 September 2023
Well explained by expert Mr. kavksatyanarayana, nothing more to explain beyond this

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