Bhubaneswar: As many as 60 migrant labourers from Odisha have died in outside states as of date since 2018, informed Labour & Employees’ State Insurance Minister Sarada Prasad Nayak in the Odisha Assembly on Thursday.
Replying to a query from BJP member Kusum Tete, Nayak said that 322 complaints were received from migrant labourers working in outside states and following inquiry 5,440 migrant labourers were rescued and sent to their native villages.
Nayak said that based on qualification there is a provision for providing compensation under the Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, Odisha Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Board and Workmen’s Compensation Act in the event of death at the workplace or disablement.
Based on this a total sum of Rs 64,24, 807 has been paid as compensation, Nayak added.
The Minister further informed that last year (2023) as per The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 as many as 1,231 contractors have been issued licenses for the deployment of 81,232 migrant labourers outside the state.
