Section 4
(1) The Fund shall be utilized for the purpose of financing measures for promoting the welfare of labour employed in the sugar and power alcohol industries, including housing, provision of dispensary services and the development generally of the sugar and power alcohol industries.
4. (1) The Fund shall be utilized for the purpose of financing measures for promoting the welfare of labour employed in the sugar and power alcohol industries, including housing, provision of dispensary services and the development generally of the sugar and power alcohol industries.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the money in each account of the Fund may be utilized to defray ;
A. Housing Account— (a) The cost of erecting, maintaining, repairing housing accommodation for labour employed in the sugar and power alcohol industries and of providing services and facilities connected therewith ;
(b) the cost of preparing schemes, and of acquiring any land or purchasing any property required, for the purposes referred to in clause (a) ;
(c) the grant, subject to the previous approval of the State Government, to local authority, housing society or the owner, agent or manager, of a sugar or power alcohol factory, of money in aid of any scheme approved by the Housing Board for the purposes referred to in clauses (a) and (b) ;
(d) the allowances, if any, of members of the Housing Board and the amounts dubitable to the account under sub -section (1) ;
(e) any other expenditure which the State Government directs to be defrayed out of the Housing Account of the Fund.
B . General Welfare Account— (a) The cost of measures for the benefit of labour employed in the sugar and power alcohol industries directed towards —
(i) the improvement of health and sanitation, the prevention of disease, the provision of medical facilities, maternity and the improvement of existing medical facilities, including the provision and maintenance of dispensary services in sugar and power alcohol factories, the owners of which do not receive grant-in-aid under subsection (3), the promotion of industrial hygiene, and the undertaking of medico -social investigation ;
(ii) the provision of water supplies, and facilities for washing and the improvement of existing supplies and facilities ;
(iii) the provision and improvement of educational facilities, including libraries, reading rooms, community wireless listening ;
(iv) the improvement of the standard of living, including nutrition, amelioration of social conditions and the provision of recreational facilities ;
(v) the provision of transport to and from work ;
(b) the allowances, if any, of the members of the Advisory Committee and the amounts debitable to the account under sub -section (1) ;
(c) any other expenditure which the State Government directs to be defrayed out of the General Welfare Account of the Fund.
C . Development Account— (a) The cost of providing facilities for imparting technical education and training connected with the manufacture of sugar, alcohol and products derived therefrom, including the growing of sugarcane, and the utilization of bye-products of both industries ;
(b) the cost of providing facilities of all kinds for research connected with the growing of sugarcane and the manufacture and utilization abovementioned, including the financing of pilot and largescale trials ;
(c) the cost of providing facilities generally for the development of the sugar and alcohol industries including the building of roads and the provision of facilities for irrigation.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) the State Government may, out of the General Welfare Account of the Fund, pay annually, grants-in-aid to such of the owners of sugar and power alcohol factories as maintain, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, dispensary services of the prescribed standard for the benefit of the labour employed in their factories, so however, that the amount payable as grant-in-aid to the owner of a concern shall be determined from time to time, by the prescribed authority in the prescribed manner ;
Provided that no grant-in-aid shall be payable in respect of any dispensary service maintained by the owner of the sugar and power alcohol factories, if the amount expended thereon, as determined by the prescribed authority is less than the prescribed sum.