Overview
- Delhi’s welfare board, which announced the plan Tuesday, will provide standardized summer kits to more than 100,000 registered construction workers across the capital.
- Each pack carries nine items for hydration and cooling support, including glucose, 30 ORS sachets, one kilogram of sattu, a cotton towel, a sun cap, prickly heat powder, a one-litre water bottle, and 250 ml of sharbat in a utility backpack.
- Officials priced the distribution at about ₹1,890 per kit, putting the outlay at more than ₹18 crore for the planned coverage.
- The board has floated a tender to appoint a PSU to manage procurement and delivery, with priority for crews currently on construction sites and estimates drawn from its registration rolls because real-time site data is not available.
- Planners expect initial reach to be about 25% of active renewed workers due to migration and field limits, and distribution is set to begin shortly as part of a heatwave response that also shifted work hours and added a four-hour afternoon break.