{"id":73761,"date":"2019-07-28T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=73761"},"modified":"2019-07-28T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:13:00","slug":"strategies-chalked-out-to-strengthen-workers-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/28\/strategies-chalked-out-to-strengthen-workers-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies chalked out to strengthen workers&#8217; board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 27:<\/strong> Various strategies were discussed to strengthen the functioning of the Arunachal Pradesh Building &amp; Other Construction Workers&#8217; Welfare Board (APB&amp;OCWWB) during a meeting of the leaders of various labour and trade unions, convened by APB&amp;OCWWB Chairman Jalley Sonam here on Saturday.<br \/>\nIn his address, Sonam called for &#8220;increasing benefits like housing loans, death and education benefits for children of the workers, maternity leave,&#8221; etc.<br \/>\nEmphasizing on providing facilities to ensure better living for the workers, Sonam said &#8220;the board is targeting to provide insurance to more than 40000 registered workers from 2019 onwards.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said the board had passed a proposal for housing loans for workers, but that it was &#8220;discontinued due to some reason.&#8221;<br \/>\nLabour Commissioner Ojing Darang provided details of several measures taken by the board for the welfare of the workers.<br \/>\nAPB&amp;OCWWB OSD Ashok Sonam spoke on the need for &#8220;cooperation between the registration officers and the board for successful implementation of any welfare scheme for the workers.&#8221;<br \/>\nAll Arunachal Pradesh Public Transport Federation president Dobing Sonam raised the issue of inclusion of transportation workers in the board. He also advocated establishing a &#8220;motor transport welfare board&#8221; by the government to provide fund for the welfare of motor transport workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jul 27: Various strategies were discussed to strengthen the functioning of the Arunachal Pradesh Building &amp; Other Construction Workers&#8217; Welfare Board (APB&amp;OCWWB) during a meeting of the leaders of various labour and trade unions, convened by APB&amp;OCWWB Chairman Jalley Sonam here on Saturday. In his address, Sonam called for &#8220;increasing benefits like housing loans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}