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Registration, expenditure and audit trends a technical commentary on the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board

Authors:
Himanshu UPADHYAYA
2022

This chapter examines the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund, a special purpose fund constituted for the welfare of construction workers. Here I focus on the implementation of social security and welfare legislation. I rely on parliamentary records, two compliance reviews of the functioning of the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare (BOCW) Board by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and reports from Kannada and English newspapers. In so doing, I show that greater scrutiny is required of the legislation’s registration, expenditure and audit processes.