(1) Every employer or the contractor shall be responsible to register such building workers eligible under this rule who are on their muster roll on the portal of the State Government or the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board or the designated portal of the Central Government, within 30 days of the worker(s) becoming eligible, and such registration shall be seeded with Aadhaar and the Universal Account Number or any other such unique number generated through the designated portal of the Central Government.

(2) It shall be the responsibility of the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board to provide a portal with the facility to the employers and contractor to register the eligible building workers on such portal. Further, the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board shall also register any other eligible building worker within the geographical area of the State:

Provided that every such building worker has completed eighteen years of age and is less than sixty years of age and has been engaged in building or other construction work for not less than ninety days in the preceding twelve months.

(3) The designated Portal of the Central Government shall have the facility for enabling each of the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board or the employer or the contractor of building or other construction work to have access for generating Universal Account Number or any other such unique number in respect of all eligible building workers and such State Board shall share details of the registered building workers with the designated Portal of the Central Government quarterly or at such periodicity as may be decided by the Central Government.

(4) The State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board or the employer or the contractor may utilise the services of the business correspondents of the Department of Posts or Common Service Centres or esewa kendras of the Central Government or the State Government or any such other agency as may be decided by the State Government or State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board for facilitating the registration, renewal or updation of particulars of eligible building workers.

(5) To facilitate the registration of eligible building workers, the Board referred to in sub-rule (1) may set up camps as may be required in the labour-intensive areas.

(6) Every registered building worker shall be issued a digital identity card bearing his photograph and other details as may be specified by the State Government or the Board referred to in sub-rule (1) which shall be downloadable from the portal of the State Government or such Board.

(7) Every building worker registered with the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board, shall be entitled to receive the benefits provided by the Board from its fund during the validity period of such registration.

(8) The delivery of welfare schemes for the building workers may be done electronically using the registration number of the building worker and any cash assistance shall be given through direct benefit transfer only.

(9) In case a building worker moves from one State to another State, then, it shall be the responsibility of the employer or the contractor to obtain the unique registration number from the building worker and effect the requisite changes in respect of such worker on the portal of the State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board of the destination State within a period of thirty days of such worker joining the muster roll under such employer or contractor, and in case the building worker does not possess such unique registration number then the employer or the contractor shall register such eligible building worker as referred to in sub-rule (1).

(10) Where a building worker moves from one State to another State, and is registered under sub-rule (9), he shall be entitled to get such benefits as are applicable to the other building workers of the destination State from the Building Workers‘ Welfare Board of that State:

Provided that an eligible building worker on the muster roll of an employer or a contractor in the destination State shall not be denied benefits only because such employer or contractor has failed to update his registration on the portal of the destination State.

(11) Every State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board shall submit a report annually to the State Government with a copy to the Central Government in the form as may be specified by the Central Government for such purpose.

(12) The State Building Workers‘ Welfare Board shall provide a mechanism for redress of grievances of building workers including telephone helpline, registration, renewal, updation, portability and delivery of welfare schemes.