Uttar Pradesh Construction Workers

Four crore workers have registered themselves with e-shram portal, with maximum registrations from Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh

A construction worker was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday for allegedly battering his wife to death in front of their two children after an argument, police said.

Om Prakash, a 20-year-old construction worker in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, is on a 1,000-kilometre-long journey to his home in Bihar's Saran.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that a monthlyamount of Rs 1,000 each will be given to 15 lakh daily wage labourers and 20.37 lakh construction workers across the state via direct benefit transfer.

Several people are still feared trapped after a building collapsed in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur yesterday, killing five people. Rescue workers, armed with gas cutters, thermal imagers and earthmovers worked overnight to search for survivors and bodies under piles of rubble. A three-year-old girl was rescued after being trapped under the debris for ove...

For 42-year-old Ram Kumar who has to travel four kilometres for work at a construction site in Ghaziabad, a cycle that he got two years ago from the state government's labour welfare fund, has made life a lot easier. But the handout did not come for free.

For 42-year-old Ram Kumar who has to travel four kilometres for work at a construction site in Ghaziabad, a cycle that he got two years ago from the state government's labour welfare fund, has made life a lot easier. But the handout did not come for free.

The Supreme Court today termed the collection of Rs 27,000 crores by state governments for the welfare of construction workers, as "ridiculous", because the bulk of the funds lie unused, while the remaining are spent on administration and advertisement, rather than the most vulnerable section in India's unorganised labour sector.

At least six construction workers were killed and 47 others injured when a tractor-trolley collided head-on with a truck at Haldaur-Nehtaur Road in Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

Angered over the death of a co-worker, labourers at a construction site here pelted stones at private vehicles and torched a police gypsy, police said on Friday. Labourer Babul Hasan, 25, from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh died after falling from the seventh floor of an under-construction multi-storey building being built by Larsen & Toubro at Behrampur...

Four crore workers have registered themselves with e-shram portal, with maximum registrations from Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh

A construction worker was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday for allegedly battering his wife to death in front of their two children after an argument, police said.

Om Prakash, a 20-year-old construction worker in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, is on a 1,000-kilometre-long journey to his home in Bihar's Saran.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that a monthlyamount of Rs 1,000 each will be given to 15 lakh daily wage labourers and 20.37 lakh construction workers across the state via direct benefit transfer.

Several people are still feared trapped after a building collapsed in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur yesterday, killing five people. Rescue workers, armed with gas cutters, thermal imagers and earthmovers worked overnight to search for survivors and bodies under piles of rubble. A three-year-old girl was rescued after being trapped under the debris for ove...

For 42-year-old Ram Kumar who has to travel four kilometres for work at a construction site in Ghaziabad, a cycle that he got two years ago from the state government's labour welfare fund, has made life a lot easier. But the handout did not come for free.

For 42-year-old Ram Kumar who has to travel four kilometres for work at a construction site in Ghaziabad, a cycle that he got two years ago from the state government's labour welfare fund, has made life a lot easier. But the handout did not come for free.

The Supreme Court today termed the collection of Rs 27,000 crores by state governments for the welfare of construction workers, as "ridiculous", because the bulk of the funds lie unused, while the remaining are spent on administration and advertisement, rather than the most vulnerable section in India's unorganised labour sector.

At least six construction workers were killed and 47 others injured when a tractor-trolley collided head-on with a truck at Haldaur-Nehtaur Road in Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

Angered over the death of a co-worker, labourers at a construction site here pelted stones at private vehicles and torched a police gypsy, police said on Friday. Labourer Babul Hasan, 25, from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh died after falling from the seventh floor of an under-construction multi-storey building being built by Larsen & Toubro at Behrampur...