Section 7 — Constitution of State Building Workers' Welfare Boards.
7(6)
The Building Workers' Welfare Board shall perform the following functions, namely:—
(a) provide death and disability benefits to a beneficiary or his dependants;
(b) make payment of pension to the beneficiaries who have completed the age of sixty years;
(c) pay such amount in connection with premium for Group Insurance Scheme of the beneficiaries as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government;
(d) frame educational schemes for the benefit of children of the beneficiaries as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government;
(e) meet such medical expenses for treatment of major ailments of a beneficiary or, such dependant, as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government;
(f) make payment of maternity benefit to the beneficiaries;
(g) frame skill development and awareness schemes for the beneficiaries;
(h) provide transit accommodation or hostel facility to the beneficiaries;
(i) formulation of any other welfare scheme for the building worker beneficiaries by State Government in concurrence with the Central Government; and
(j) make provision and improvement of such other welfare measures and facilities as may be prescribed by the Central Government.