Labour Card and Renewal of Labour Card - Uttarakhand

What is the Uttarakhand labour card?

Labour Card and Renewal of Labour Card is the worker-registration facility run by the Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (UKBOCWWB) under the Labour Department, Government of Uttarakhand. The card, commonly called the shramik card or labour card, is a photo identity card issued to a construction worker after their name is entered in the Board's labour register.

The Board was constituted by state notification number 2178 dated 31 October 2005 under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, and the Uttarakhand rules framed under it in 2005. Its money comes from the companion Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996, under which every construction establishment deposits 1 per cent of the cost of construction into the welfare fund. The card is what connects an individual worker to that fund.

The card itself pays nothing. Its value is that it is mandatory for every welfare scheme the Board runs, pension, death and funeral assistance, disability pension, housing advance, education assistance for children, maternity assistance, tool kits, cycles, solar lights, umbrellas, sanitary napkins and skill upgradation. Without a live labour card, none of those applications can even be filed.

Who is eligible for an Uttarakhand labour card?

You can register if:

• You are a resident of Uttarakhand.
• You are aged 18 or above and have not completed 60 years. Sixty is the superannuation age used by the Board.
• You work in construction, repair or maintenance of government or private buildings, or on bridges, roads, airstrips, irrigation works, drainage, embankments, tunnels, flood-control structures, power generation, transmission and distribution, water works, oil and gas installations, dams, canals, reservoirs, pipelines, television towers and mobile or telephone towers.
• You have worked at least 90 days as a construction worker in the preceding one year and can produce a certificate to that effect.
• You are employed as construction labour under MGNREGA, such workers are specifically covered.

Trades covered include unskilled labourers, masons (mistri), plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, welders, bar benders and helpers.

You cannot apply / are not eligible if:

• You are below 18 or have already completed 60 years of age.
• You cannot produce a certificate of 90 days of construction work in the previous year.
• You are not a resident of Uttarakhand and are not working on construction in the state.
• You are the employer, contractor or establishment owner rather than a worker. Establishments register separately under the cess route at ukbocw.in/ukbocw.
• Your earlier registration lapsed and has already been reinstated twice — the Board allows restoration of lapsed membership only two times.

What documents are required for a labour card in Uttarakhand?

The Board deliberately simplified age proof: any one of the seven documents listed above is accepted, so a worker without a school certificate is not shut out.

How to apply for an Uttarakhand labour card

1. Visit your nearest Shramik Suvidha Kendra or Jan Suvidha Kendra with your Aadhaar card, ration card, bank passbook, two photographs, age proof and the 90-day work certificate.
2. Ask the operator to fill the UKBOCWWB registration application and the nomination form naming your legal heirs, and sign the self-declaration form handed to you at the counter.
3. Let the operator upload the scanned documents and deposit the prescribed Rs 100 contribution; keep the receipt.
4. The application is forwarded to the Registration Officer / Labour Enforcement Officer of your area, who verifies the papers.
5. On verification, your details are entered in the Labour Register; the serial number at which your name is entered becomes your registration number.
6. Collect the photo identity card from the public service centre of the department or from the Labour Department office. The card is valid for three years from registration.

Workers who prefer the offline route can submit the same application and nomination form directly to the Registration Officer, who supplies both forms free of charge. The Board also publishes downloadable declaration formats on ukbocw.uk.gov.in under "Download Declaration Forms".

How to renew an Uttarakhand labour card

1. Start the renewal before the three-year validity ends: do not wait for the card to lapse.
2. Go to the same Shramik Suvidha Kendra or the registration office where you are already registered and ask for renewal (navinikaran).
3. Deposit the Rs 100 contribution for the next three-year block and attach a fresh 90-day work certificate if asked.
4. Collect the renewed card or the updated validity endorsement.

If the deadline is missed, benefits stop until membership is restored. The authorised officer may allow reinstatement on payment of the outstanding contribution, but only twice in a worker's lifetime. Under the state's Right to Service notification, renewal is to be completed within 30 working days by the Assistant Labour Commissioner.

How do I check my labour card status?

1. Open ukbocw.uk.gov.in.
2. Click the link "Click here to know the status of worker registration" (LabourSearch), and enter your registration or application details.
3. For a benefit claim, use "Click here to know the status of scheme application" (LabourSchemeSearch) on the same page.

The Board also runs a mobile app, linked from the top of its home page, for status checks.

Why labour card applications get rejected

• No 90-day work certificate, or a certificate not signed by a recognised employer, contractor or local authority. This is the commonest failure.
• Age outside 18–60, or age proof that contradicts the Aadhaar date of birth.
• Name mismatch between Aadhaar, bank passbook and the application, which blocks later DBT payments even if the card is issued.
• Nomination form left blank, which surfaces only when a family tries to claim death or funeral assistance.
• Duplicate registration. A worker already registered in another district.
• Renewal filed after expiry without paying the outstanding contribution.

Fix the paperwork and refile at the same Suvidha Kendra; there is no limit on refiling a registration application.

Grievance and contact

• UKBOCWWB toll-free number: 1800 2127 174
• Board office: Third Floor, GMVN Building, Rajpur Road, Dehradun 248001
• First appeal on registration: Assistant Labour Commissioner of the area. Second appeal: Deputy Labour Commissioner.
• First appeal on renewal: Deputy Labour Commissioner. Second appeal: Additional Labour Commissioner.

Registration forms and nomination forms are supplied free by the Registration Officer. Apart from the Rs 100 contribution paid against a receipt, no agent should charge you for "getting a labour card made".