Goyal to unveil portal on payment to contract workers tomorrow

Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal will tomorrow roll out Contract Labour Payment Management System, a portal of Coal India (CIL), to keep a tab on compliance of labour payment and other benefits to contract workers.
The minister will also felicitate employees for their "path-breaking work" towards lighting up India in the last two years, the Coal Ministry said in a statement.
The Web portal is created for monitoring compliance of labour payment and other benefits to contract workers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970.
It is an integrated framework for all subsidiaries of CIL. The in-house developed application will maintain a comprehensive database for all contract workers engaged by different contractors in CIL and all its subsidiaries.

The Central Mine Planning and Development Institute (CMPDI), the consultancy arm of CIL, will maintain the portal.
The system has in-built mechanism to validate minimum wages paid, generate wage slips and employment cards, among others, for contract workers as required under the Act.

The portal provides access to all contract workers through a Workers Identification Number to view their personal details and payment status. Contract workers can also register their grievances through this portal.
The system extends facility to all citizens of the country to view a snapshot of contract works in CIL and subsidiaries, the number of contract workers engaged, payment status, minimum wages paid and the like.

The nodal officer at different locations in the company will monitor the process and ensure compliance by all contractors. It has been planned to make payment to the contractors only after submitting a system-generated declaration of compliance.