Worker security on govt agenda

Patna, Feb. 29: The state cabinet today gave the nod to the Bihar Shatabdi Unorganised Sector Workers and Artisans Social Security Scheme, 2011.

The scheme will replace the Aam Admi Bima Yojana ' a central programme that covers death and permanent disability for the benefit of landless families in rural areas.

The new scheme will benefit and be payable to workers and artisans or their dependents and children under various schemes.

The programme, which will be extended to entire Bihar, will take into account the beneficiaries from April 1, 2011.

Under the scheme, a self-employed person of the state, who earns a livelihood from professions like blacksmith, basket making, bullock/cycle or hard cart pulling, carpentry, autorickshaw driving and others, are covered.

The labour department would implement the scheme and the money would be given to the deserving persons through the district administration.

Sources said in case of accidental death of a worker or an artisan, a grant of Rs 1 lakh shall be paid to his/her legal dependent under the scheme.

In case of natural death of a worker or an artisan, a grant of Rs 30,000 shall be paid to his legal dependent.

Moreover, in case of permanent total disability, a grant of Rs 75,000 shall be paid while in case of partial disability a grant of Rs 37,500 shall be paid. Apart from these, the scheme also covers the provision for scholarships to children of workers and artisans.

Under the scheme, Rs 1,200 (Rs 100 every month for a year) shall be paid as scholarship to a maximum of two children of a worker or artisan studying in classes IX to XII, government polytechnic and long-term trades in government industrial training institutes in Bihar.

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Worker security on govt agenda