"Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (BOCW) was enacted to regulate the employment and conditions of service and to provide for safety, health and welfar

Accommodation According to Section 34 of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 , it shall be duty of the employer to provide, free of charges and within the work site or as near to it as may be possible, temporary living accommodation to all building workers employed by him for such period as the building or other construction work is in progress. Such temporary accommodation shall have separate cooking place, bathing, washing and lavatory facilities. As soon as may be, after the building or other construction work is over, the employer shall, at his own cost, cause removal or demolition of temporary structures so erected by him and restore the ground in good level and clean condition. In case an employer is given any land by a Municipal Board or any other local authority for the purposes of providing temporary accommodation for the building workers under this section, he shall, as soon as may be after the construction work is over, return the possession of such land in the same condition in which he received the same.