Portal for contract labour payment management system launched

New Delhi, May 4 (KNN) The ‘Contract Labour Payment Management System’- a portal of Coal India Limited (CIL) has been launched here today.

Launching the portal, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy said that this portal is one more step to reach out in providing information to the people of India.

He further added that it will curb problems like corruption and exploitation of labour by the contractors and help providing proper & timely wages to contractual workers.

Through this portal, the wages will be calculated and credited directly in bank account of the all contractual labourers. The Minister urged all other PSUs and private sector organisations to replicate this portal and assured free of cost technical support.

This portal will be made fully functional within 45 to 60 days, Goyal added. 

On the occasion, Goyal also made announcement for a series of upcoming mobile application/ web portals of his Ministries. He informed that the ministries are working to launch a Renewable Energy mobile application for solar and wind power bids and projects; a Transmission app to provide information regarding location of new transmission projects and Coal linkages auction web portal. 

The ‘Contract Labour Payment Management System’ web portal is created for monitoring compliance of labour payment and other benefits to the contract workers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act. 1970. (With PIB Inputs)