Government Of Tamil Nadu

ABSTRACT

 Labour – Industrial Accidents Distress Relief Fund – Reconstitution of – Orders Issued.

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT

 G.O.Ms.No. 71                                                                  Dated: 3-5-2000.

 Read:    

                        1) G.O.Ms.No.727, Labour Department, Dated: 11.5.72.

2) G.O.Ms.No.1679, Labour and Employment Department, Dated:16.7.83.

3) From the Commissioner of Labour, Chennai-6, S3/36620/99 Dated:12.10.99 and 14.2.2000.

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 ORDER :

           In supercession of the orders issued in Government Orders, first and second read above, the Government accept the proposals of the Commissioner of Labour to reconstitute the Relief Fund known as “Industrial Accidents Distress Relief Fund”.  The rules governing the Fund are appended to this order.

           2.  Sanction is accorded to a recurring grant of Rs. 18,000/- (Rupees eighteen thousand only) per annum to the Fund reconstituted in para 1 above and the Commissioner of Labour, Chennai is empowered to distribute the grants sanctioned by the Government to the concerned Commissioners’ for Workmen Comepensation.

          3.  The expenditure sanction in para 2 above shall be debited to “2230. Labour and Employment – 01. Labour – III. Social Security for Labour – I. Non-Plan – AA. Industrial Accident Distress Relief Fund – 10. Contribution.  (D.P.C. 2230  01  III  AA  1001).

           4.  This orders issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department vide its U.O. No. 927/FS/P/2000 dated 28.3.2000.

 (By order of the Governor)

R. Rathinasamy,

Secretary to Government.

  APPENDIX

RULES GOVERNING THE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS DISTRESS RELIEF FUND TAMIL NADU.

 1.  TITLE :-            The Fund shall be called “The Industrial Accidents Distress Relief Fund,

Tamil Nadu”.

 2.  OBJECTIVES OF THE FUND :-    The Fund is intended to provide relief to the workmen who are permanently disabled by injury or the dependants of those who are fatally injured in the course of employment in stone-breaking, blasting, digging wells, or other industries where the employer does not have the financial capacity for paying the compensation awarded under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (Central Act 8 of 1923), or where, for any other reasons, the workmen or their dependants are unable to realise such compensation.

1. 3.     The amount in the Fund shall, therefore, be utilised for providing relief to permanently disabled workmen or the dependants of deceased workmen, where compensation awarded under the workmen’s compensation Act, 1923 (Central Act 8 of 1923) cannot be recovered or realised from the employer or contractor.
2. 4.      The relief given from this Fund shall be restricted to fifty percent of what is awarded by the Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation concerned under the Workmen’s Comepnsation Act, 1923 (Central Act 8 of 1923) and shall be reimbused if and when the statutory comepnsation is realised.  Before payment of the relief amount, an undertaking from the beneficiaries shall be obtained to the effect that they would not object to the amount being reimbused if and when the compensation awarded under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (Central Act 8 of 1923) is realised from the employer or contractor.
3. 5.     SOURCES OF THE FUND :  The Fund shall be made up from such grants as the Government of Tamil nadu may sanction from time to time.  The Commissioner of Labour, Chennai is empowered to distribute the grants sanctioned by the Government to all the Commissioners of  Workmen’s Comepnsation.
4. 6.     OPERATION OF THE FUND :-  The grants made by the Government of Tamil Nadu shall be drawn and deposited by the concerned Commissioners for Workmen’s Compensation in the Reserve Bank of India/State Bank of India in a Personal Deposit Account.
5. 7.     Payments from the Fund shall be made only on the orders of the Commissioner of Labour, Chennai upon proposals submitted by the Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation concerned.  If in any one case, a payment of more than Rs. 10,000/- is considered necessary, orders of the Government of Tamil Nadu shall be obtained in advance.
6. 8.     MAINTENANCE OF ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT :-  The Commissioners for Workmen’s Compensation shall maintain the accounts for remittance into and withdrawals from the Fund and all disbursements and reimbursements.  The deposit in the Reserve Bank of India/State Bank of India shall be in the personal deposit account of the Commissioners for Workmen’s Compensation concerned.
7. 9.     The audit of the accounts shall be made by the Accountant General (A &E), Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
8. 10. The expenditure shall be debited to “2230. Labour and Employment – 01. Labour – 111. Social Security for Labour – I. Non-Plan – AA. Industrial Accident Distress Relief Fund – 10. Contribution.

(D.P. C. 2230  01  111  AA  1001).