Contents of the OSH Rules (Lakshadweep)

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025

Rule 134. Educational facilities for worker's children

Chapter IX — Special Provisions for Contract Labour and Inter-state MigrantsPart VI — PlantationMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020F. No. 08/04/2024-LE&T, 27 Apr 2026

Official text

Every employer shall, if the number of workers children between the ages of six and twelve in his plantation exceeds twenty-five, provide and maintain a Primary School for imparting Primary education to the children:

Provided that an employer may not provide and maintain a Primary School if there is one under the direct management of the Administration of Lakshadweep or of any local body for imparting free education to the children up to the primary or higher standard, with enough seats to admit the children between the ages of six and twelve of the workers in his plantation or within a distance of one kilometre from the place where workers reside in his plantation.

Source: The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025, F. No. 08/04/2024-LE&T — Lakshadweep Gazette Extraordinary Vol. LXII, No. 07, p. 216 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 216 · official download · all sources