Is It Mandatory to Keep Separate Registers for Migrant and Contract Labour? Seeking Clarity

Can someone tell me if it is mandatory to maintain separate registers - Form 12 under the Inter-State Migrant Labour Act and the Contract Labour Regulation and Abolition Act.

Yes, it is mandatory to maintain all registers under any Act. Form No. XII in the Inter-State Migrant Labour Act and Form No. VIII in the Contract Labour Act are also mandatory.

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Sacheein

If I, as a Principal Employer, have appointed a contractor working in my end-line packaging operation for quite a long time (say 5 years or more) and in his payroll, he appoints workmen from another state who are also working for the same number of years as contract workmen under the agency, are they termed as migrant workmen?

Definition of a Migrant Workman

In short, how is a migrant workman defined? Does he have to be recruited in another state, or does being from one state but migrating to another where he has been recruited also classify him as migrant labor? For example, I have a factory in Tamil Nadu. Can I consider a contract workman who has entered and produced a valid ID of his permanent address, which shows he's a resident of Andhra Pradesh but was recruited in Tamil Nadu? Is he a migrant laborer, or to classify him as such, should he have been recruited in Andhra Pradesh and then brought to Tamil Nadu for work?

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