Overview
- Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann announced the mass enrolment at a BOCW Welfare Board review on Saturday, June 6, and said the state will bear the roughly ₹15 crore cost of waiving the Rs 145 registration fee.
- The campaign will enroll or revalidate 10 lakh workers to raise coverage from the current 2.21 lakh people already on the BOCW register.
- Punjab says it has cut welfare-application processing time from 203 days in 2022–23 to 73 days and ordered evening village camps and faster procedures to help workers complete registration after work.
- Officials were told to share data for 50,000 ‘live’ registered workers with the Punjab Skill Development Mission for training at sites, centres and camps, and to ensure women get payments under the Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna.
- The government also directed upgrades to Labour Chowks with sheds and drinking water to reach daily-wage labourers more easily, though detailed camp timetables and rollout monitors have not yet been published.