Rule 151. Housing Scheme under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 92

(1) Within six months of the date of publication of these rules, every employer of Plantation shall necessarily provide accommodation and shall submit to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator for approval a scheme in regard to the provision by him of housing accommodation for workers, who shall with his remarks forward the same to State Government for approval within thirty days. The State Government will decide the housing scheme as proposed by the employer within a period of three months.

(2) The scheme shall provide for the following matters:-(a) specification of the period during which housing accommodation is proposed to be provided in respect of all resident workers in a plantation, such period being not later than the period referred to in rules 150;

(b) the type of design which is proposed to be adopted for the construction of houses, such design being in conformity with the standards and specification as may be approved by the State Government, under sub-rule (1);

(c) time frame, plan and site-plan, in duplicate, of the buildings to be constructed or remodelled for use as workers' houses.

(3) All houses shall be built in accordance with the scheme as approved in writing by the State Government.

(4) With a view to showing the progress made in providing houses according to the approved scheme every employer shall submit to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator of Plantations a report in Form- 52 by July 31st of every year.