Nueva Delhi: The Supreme Court ordered the governments of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Saturday to pay compensation for construction workers affected by the closure of activities due to Qualified Response Action Plan In Delhi-Dr.
A Bank of Judges Abhay Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said that governments must pay workers using funds collected as a labor cessation, even if there is no specific court order.
“As for 2024 and 2025, we have issued instructions to the State to pay compensation. We make it clear that from now on every time the construction activities are closed due to the implementation of grape measures, compensation will be paid to the affected workers in terms of instructions issued by this Court dated November 24, 2021,” said the banker, “said the banker.
“Even if there is no specific direction of the court to pay compensation, the NCR states will pay compensation,” he added.
During the hearing, the Apex court was informed that Haryana, in the first and second phases of GRAP-4, has paid compensation at 2,68,759 and 2,24,881 workers, respectively.
In addition, the process of paying compensation to around 95,000 workers for the period Grap January 4, 2025 is underway.
The Rajasthan government revealed that compensation had been paid to 3,197 workers, while UTTAR Pradesh informed that the compensation had been disbursed to 4,88,246, 4,84,157 and 691 workers affected during phases 1, 2 and 3 of Grap, respectively.
Delhi’s lawyer told the court that the compensation had been paid to 93,272 workers and that the verification process for the remaining registered workers is in Progreso.
This occurs after the Court rebuked the Government of Delhi for not paying the full subsistence allocation to construction workers, who were without work due to the councils imposed to combat air pollution in the national capital.
The Delhi government was ordered to convene a meeting of the Union of Workers to guarantee its registration.
Pollution curbs include a prohibition of all construction activities, the entry of non -essential polluting trucks in Delhi and the mandatory change of school classes, except classes 10 and 12, hybrid mode.
During the winters, the Delhi-DNR region applies under Grap restrictions, which classifies air quality in four stages: stage 1 (poor, AQI 201-300), stage 2 (very poor, aqi 301-400), stage 3 (severe, aqi 401-450) and stage 4 (severe more, aqi above 450).
The unfavorable weather conditions, combined with vehicle emissions, rice queue burning, firecrackers and other sources of local pollution, lead to dangerous levels of air quality in Delhi-DNCR during winters.