The Delhi Government has disbursed an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5,000 to each construction worker, registered under the ‘Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board’ as an aid in the times of crisis.

A total of 2,10,684 construction workers will be granted disbursals under this scheme. At present, the Delhi Government has disbursed Rs 52.88 crore to 1,05,750 construction workers and in the coming days, more construction workers will be granted this ex-gratia relief,  the Chief Minister's office said in a statement.

In order to cater the needs of all daily-wage, migrant and construction workers across Delhi, the Govt has also set-up food distribution centres across schools and construction sites.

Approximately 7000 food packets have already been distributed in these food distribution centres as of Thursday evening. Delhi Government is also taking rapid action in setting-up a helpline for construction, daily-wage and migrant workers which will be active in the next 2-3 days.

Through this all-encompassing helpline, any worker in Delhi will be able to access information on availability of beds in hospitals, food distribution centres, availability of medicines etc, it said.

Delhi Government has taken every action in support and aid of construction, migrant and daily-wage workers in time of the COVID-19 crisis. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has also made a number of efforts and appealed to daily-wage and migrant workers to not leave Delhi as the Delhi Government is doing everything to ensure they are aided.

Delhi Government’s commitment to help construction workers did not go unnoticed even last year in 2020 during lockdown, when Delhi Government disbursed Rs. 5000 to 55,000 construction workers.

Many new construction workers were added to the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, due to large drives for registration of construction workers. Currently, there are 1,72,000 workers registered with the Board.