<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Supreme Court today criticized the Centre for not uploading the draft of a welfare scheme for construction workers on the Labour Ministry website. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dubbing the ministry's affidavit as false, the top court said, it was making a joke of a plan for the poor involving a whopping 30,000 crore rupees. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta summoned the Union Labour Secretary to explain why its order was not complied with.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The top court had earlier too lashed out at the Centre after an affidavit was filed by the Comptroller and Auditor General saying that a chunk of the funds meant for the construction workers' welfare had been spent to buy laptops and washing machines and less than ten per cent spent for the actual purpose.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This had prompted the apex court to direct the government to frame a model scheme for the welfare of construction workers across the country by September 30 to address the issues of education, health, social security and pension for them.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div class="adL" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>