Patiala, Sept. 15 -- The Punjab labour department adopted the Mukh Mantri Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojana for women construction workers without securing the required concurrence of the Union labour ministry-a mandatory procedure under Section 7, Sub-section 6(i) of the Code on Social Security, 2020.

The procedural lapse was admitted by the Punjab labour department during a meeting with Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya at the national conference organised by the ministry of labour and employment in Mumbai on September 11.

Punjab labour secretary Manvesh Singh Sidhu acknowledged in the meeting that the state introduced the scheme without central concurrence.

Sidhu also informed the Union minister that the Punjab and Haryana high cour...