States collected Rs 78L crore as cess from construction sector, 54.91% remain unutilised

States have collected over Rs 78,521.24 crore as cess for the welfare of workers in the past 25 years -- with Maharashtra and Karnataka topping the list -- but have spent only around 45 per cent of it so far. The statistics collected by the Ministry of Labour and Employment showed that the states and union territories together spent only Rs 35,399.40 crore (55.09 per cent) and

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