Top 4 Tips for Caring for Your Horse – EzineMark

April 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment

 

As a horse owner, you want nothing but the best for your animal companion. Unfortunately, no matter how well you care for your partner, it will fall into injuries and illnesses at some point in its life. There is no way you can prevent such things to happen especially if the reason for the injury or the illness is your horse getting old. The good news is there are steps you can take that will allow you to provide the best care to your horse at times that it is under the weather. Most of these methods are very basic, but they are very important and will help you increase your chance for success in any kind of situation.
 
Be Able to Handle Your Horse Properly
 
Horse handling may be a very basic skill, but a lot of horse owners do not know how to perform it properly. As a basic skill, this is very important because in case an emergency arises, it will allow you to lead your horse for treatment without any problem. Many horses don’t get treated immediately just because their owners do not know how to handle them properly. To avoid treatment delays in the future, make sure you master the basic skill of handling and leading your horse. This way, you won’t have any problem transporting it for treatment when the need arises.
 
Teach Your Horse Proper Behavior
 
This is another important skill you need to learn as an owner and is important for the well-being of your horse. Many owners do not have a problem with their horse the first few years of its life, until the time it has to be taken to the vet to receive shots. If the horse has not been trained when it was younger, chances are it will react violently to the pain and will be very difficult to control. For this reason, it is crucial to introduce your horse to such lessons when it is still young. It’s also important that you are able to touch your horse at any part of its body. If your horse is comfortable with being touched at any part of its body, especially by other people, your vet will have an easier time carrying out any form of treatment for it. Discipline will also help your horse recover from any form of illness of injury quickly, with little or no complications at all.
 
Learn How to Check Your Horse’s Vital Signs
 
Your vet can teach you how to do basic physical exam for your horse, but since it’s you who is with your horse 24/7, it’s your responsibility to familiarize yourself with your horse’s behavior. Check for any changes in his behavior regularly, and if you suspect something is not right, take your stethoscope and thermometer and check your pet’s heartbeat and body temperature. With practice, you will be able to determine immediately if your horse is under the weather.
 
Familiarize Yourself with Basic First Aid
 
Finally, learn how to apply basic first aid and make sure you have the right first aid supplies on hand. This is very crucial because improper administration can result not only to the worsening of the condition of the horse, but also to death.
 
These tips will not only help maintain the overall health of your horse, but will also save it from serious injuries and even death. Meanwhile, you can check horse supplement in this site as well as other products you may need to continually provide one hundred percent care for your equine partner.
 
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Tony Green is a big pet lover. He loves to write anything that has to do with caring for animals, especially domesticated ones. You can find out about online horse supplies at Aussievetproducts.com.au.

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Various Types of Horse Rugs – EzineMark

March 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Horse owners usually look for horse rugs to offer greater level of protection to their horse during the hot summer months as well as the cold winter months. Usually, horse rugs which are meant for winter season are thicker and warmer than the ones which are meant for summer. So, if you are planning to buy horse rugs, then just have a look at the varieties available so that you can buy the one which best suits your horse.

Turnout rugs: These turnout rugs are specially designed to keep your horse warm during the winter months and also to keep your horse clean and dry. The outer material of this type of rug is waterproof synthetic and its thickness varies based on the warmth that your horse needs.

Stable rugs: As the name itself suggests, these rugs are meant to keep your horse warm inside the stable. These stable rugs are not made of waterproof materials and hence, they cannot be worn outside the stable. They are made of padded synthetic or quilted materials and are also available with different thicknesses.

Lightweight rugs: These rugs are suitable for your horse during spring and autumn when it is neither too hot nor too cold. Some of these lightweight rugs come with fleece lining to provide extra warmth to your horse.

Under Rugs: If your horse has become quite old and wants greater protection during the chilling winter months, then just try out under rugs. These rugs are used along with other types of rugs as extra layers for greater protection against cold.

Summer sheets: These sheets help to keep your horse clean. However, they are not waterproof.

These are some of the common varieties of horse rugs available in the market today. You will get cheap horse rugs as well as expensive ones. The choice is yours as to which one you want to buy. So without further delay, just go ahead and buy them for your horse today.

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Belmont Stakes History – Rmember Whirlaway, A Triple Crown …

March 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Whirlaway became the 5th Triple Crown winner by winning the Belmont Stakes in 1941.

If there has ever been a mad genius of horse racing, it is Whirlaway. It is safe to say that this horse had a couple of screws loose.

He had propensity for bearing out and drifting toward the middle of the racetrack which was often the cause of his getting himself beaten. He was blessed with a world of ability and when he was right, the only horse that could beat him was himself. Despite this self induced handicap he gave himself, he still managed to win much of the time.

In fact, in his first race, he went straight to the outside rail, followed it all the way around the track, and still managed to win.

In the Saratoga Special, he bolted to the fence at the far turn and still won.

The propensity he showed as a two year old for bearing out continued on into his three year old season. In the Bluegrass Stakes, he bore out and was beaten six lengths by Our Boots. In the Derby Trial, five days prior to the Kentucky Derby, he did it again, and got himself beat by ¾ of a length, again finishing second. Amazingly, the Derby Trial was his 23rd race of his career. These days it is unusual to see a horse with more than seven starts upon entering the Kentucky Derby.

Prior to the Kentucky Derby, his trainer took the unusual steps of walking him all around the inside rail so that he understood the path he was supposed to take. His trainer Ben Jones saw fit to make an equipment change. To remedy the situation, he decided to try a one eyed blinker with a cup on the outside, to restrict vision in Whirlaway’s right eye and also cut a hole for his left eye through his blinkers so that he could see the inside rail but not the outside one. The measure proved to be a successful one and he won the Derby by 8 lengths despite being blocked early on.

In the Kentucky Derby, after trailing in dead last, Whirlaway rallied from the back of the pack to take the Kentucky Derby by eight lengths, a record margin, and did so in track record time of 201 2/5 for the 1 ¼ miles.

His Preakness was almost as impressive, dominating that race by 5 ½ lengths with speed to spare.

On June 7, 1941, only three others went to the post with him. Whirlaway led by 7 lengths in midstretch and loped to the wire, winning easily in a gallop.

Whirlaway went on to win his five of his next six races, and resumed his old habit of bearing out in a couple of his winning ones. He raced 60 times in his career, winning 32 races, and finishing in the top three in 56 of those 60 starts. He ended his career with $561,161 in career earnings. Blood-Horse magazine ranked him No. 26 in their list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th century.

You can jockey or match Whirlaway with thousands of other great champions in our online free horse racing game. We offer the most complete horse racing games available. Breed, train and race against a mass community of other players in a exciting life like virtual experience. Horseracegame.com has been building simulated horse race games since 1998.

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An ardent fan of horse racing for years, I am extremely passionate about writing articles on adventurous topics on the lines of new developments in sports, online games as well as other fields. You can find articles regarding Horse racing industries and interesting facts about the understanding of virtual horses. know more information https://www.facebook.com/horseracingisfun.

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Corporate Hospitality Package by CHG – EzineMark

March 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Corporate Hospitality Group gives a wide range of hospitality packages for rugby, golf, tennis, Football, Cricket &horse racing. Our competitive prices are available online where our packages can also be reserved. Our online Hospitality and Tickets services give an opportunity to see our wide range of events.

Corporate Hospitality Group as official rugby union partner provides Rugby Hospitality and Rugby Tickets. Golf is the most popular sports event in the world. Golf Hospitality and Golf Tickets are available at Corporate Hospitality Group.

Tennis was first created by European monks to be played for entertainment purposes during religious ceremonies. Tennis was originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages.Corporate Hospitality Group has opportunity for the user that they can choose their Tennis Hospitality and Tennis tickets at competitive price.

Football is really a famous sports people love to watch it. Corporate Hospitality Group provides Football Hospitality and Football Tickets at competitive price than you’ll not find anywhere else.

Cricket is bat and ball sport which is  played between two teams of eleven players. Cricket Hospitality or Crickets Tickets are available at Corporate Hospitality Group at competative price.

Horse racing is a most papular sport event in Great Britain which held in different racecourses every year. Corporate hospitality Group provide Hospiatlity and Tickets of all Horceracing events like Grand Nationals Hospitality, Royal Ascot Hospitality, Glorious Goodwood Horseracing Hospitality and York Ebor Hospitality. This is a great opportunity for fans of Horse racing that they come at Corporate Hospitality Group and choose the Hospitality on their choice with compitative price.

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Online Horse Training Methods – EzineMark

March 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Taking care of horses is not very easy. This is because, horses have power and size more than humans. Ordinarily, human beings would not be able to control horses; but with training, it becomes easier. Training horses is an art; one which many people have come to enjoy. In the same way, there are many people who just love riding horses and have even established some kind of bond or friendship with their horses that they simply understand one another. How does this come about? It comes will the knowledge one acquires through various Online Horse Training Methods.

There are many young people who dream about the day they will get their dream horse. They imagine how beautiful the animal will look and how they will ride them.

To be able to effectively train horses, one has to take into account the health and dietary needs of the animal. Then there is the issue of adequate accommodation and grooming.

There are a lot of methods out there on how to train horses which can be found in books (hard copies and ebooks).  The problem with books however is that even though they usually contain very useful information (especially at the time of writing or publication), the information they contain most time become outdated and irrelevant as new training methods are discovered. Also, discoveries on the issue of the health of horses are being updated and made available all the time.

There are also websites and blogs dedicated to providing information on various methods of training horses together with new facts about health. Once you get a good website dedicated to this, you will definitely get the updates as they are released.

You can get any kind of information online –dietary needs of the animals, video tips for proper grooming techniques and even advance equine massage tips. Another good reason to seek online help is that it is readily available 24 hours in a day, every day of the week. You always have the freedom reading at your own time. All you need is to click your mouse and you are on.

Online training videos make the job even simpler. Just by watching you are guided through all you need to become the trainer you desire. You can also get other horse equipment online, read reviews from other owners and share ideas in online forums. In this way you can give the best to your horses.

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How To Choose The Best Horse Stable – EzineMark

March 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There are many things to consider when choosing a horse stable for you and your horse. Make sure the stables have plenty of land, because horses need large areas, as they need both pastures and areas where they can exercise and be trained. You should also make sure there are other horses stabled there since horses are herd animals that need social contact with other horses.

Respiratory problems. Horses are adapted to live in the wild, so it is very unnatural for them to live inside of a building where spores, mites and dust can be found. The manure produces high levels of ammonia which adds to the stress on the horses’ respiratory systems. All these factors cause the abundance of respiratory problems among horses. To combat these issues you should choose a stable with a high ceiling, good ventilation and a relatively low temperature.

Inside the stable. Today horses are in most cases kept in box stalls. This lets them move around and lie down if they want to. Make sure your horse gets a box stall that is big enough for your horse.

In nature horses eat from the ground and that is what their bodies are adapted to. That is why the hay should be served on the floor. However, when eating grain and pelleted feeds, the horse wants to spread it out and sort it before eating, and that is why the box stall should have a manger.  Water is best served either from a bucket or a waterer.

Apart from the box stall, you need a place for shoeing and grooming. This place should be warmer than the cooler box stall since this is where humans will spend a lot of time. Horse stables should also have a shower stall where you can wash off your horse. It should ideally be situated close to the front stable door to facilitate good ventilation. A separate room for food storage is also a must. The last mandatory room in the stable you choose is the tack room. That is where you can store all your equipment, like saddles for example, to make sure they dry up and stay in a good condition between usage.

Alternative types of stables. Apart from the conventional horse stables I have descried above, there are alternative types of stables. Two of the most common alternatives are outdoor box stalls and loose housing. The outdoor box stall is a box stall that is placed outside in the fresh air. Loose housing means that a group of horses live together in and outside of an open shed. They can walk in and out as they please, thereby giving both shelter and fresh air, as well as social interaction with other horses.

Stable safety. Fire in a stable is a horrible thing and should be avoided at all costs. To minimize the risk of fire you should choose horse stables where:

* The building is sectionalized into smaller spaces. This will decrease the risk of the fire spreading.
* Smoking is strictly banned.
* The electric appliances are approved for usage in stables.
* Walls and ceiling are made of fireproof materials.
* Special ventilation installed in the ceiling can let the smoke out.
* Powder extinguishers and RCDs are available.

 

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Apple Blossom Handicap – racing – EzineMark

March 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Each year in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a grand event takes place. Every April at the Oaklawn Park, home of the Racing Festival of the South, thousands of people gather to see this American Thoroughbred horse race. Handicap racing, one of the forms of thoroughbred racing, is when each horse is assigned a different amount of weight to carry based on their ability. In addition to the weight each horse is carrying, they also have other factors that influence the outcome. For example, the talent of the horse trainer or jockey plays a vital role in how well the horse will do. Also, the gender of the horse and his/her personal traits has its own impact. Other factors in the mix are closeness to the inside of the barrier, and the track itself, all these being key components to horse racing. Graded stakes race, a term that describes races that derive their name from the stake, or entrance fee the owners pay. The track also adds to the stake which is paid in prize money to the race’s winners.
 
Of the 65 thoroughbred race tracks, Oaklawn Park was ranked #9 in 2009. The race began in 1958, was repeated in 1963, and then run every year after that. Until 1973, it was a handicap race. It then became a Graded stakes race. The type of horses in the race are fillies and mares, four years or older. The setting is a left handed dirt track usually 8.5 furlongs or 1 1/16 miles long. Over the years this distance has changed. In 1958, and 1980-2009 it was 8.5 furlongs. In the year 1963 and 1968-1974, it was only 6 furlongs. Between 1975-1979 it was 8.32, and the last one held in 2010, was 9 furlongs.
 
The owner of Oaklawn Park is Charles J. Cella. He owns the Oaklawn Jockey Club Inc. and operates the track, the business being in his family for three generations. In 2010 Cella announced a new possible change. Winner of the race takes a purse of $500,000, and after negotiating with the two leading females in the U.S. in 2009, he offered a purse increase to $5 million if the horses, Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta would start in the 2010 race. If both were willing, the race would have been 9 furlongs long. If one was not, the purse would remain $500,000 and revert to the original distance of 8.5 furlongs long. Both agreed to Cella’s offer as long as the health of their horses remained well. However, on March 14, 2010, after a race ran by Rachel Alexandra, it was announced she was not in top form to compete in the Apple Blossom Handicap 2010.
 
The winner of the race in 2010 was Zenyatta, whose jockey, Mike Smith, has also earned ‘Most wins by Jockey’ for this race. He has tallied up six wins in years 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2010. The last two wins were with the horse Zenyatta. One of the horses he rode also took ‘most wins’ – Azeri, winning in years 2002, 2003 and 2004
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Choosing Racing Hospitality for your success – EzineMark

March 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Business invironment has never been fiercely competitive as today. With the credit crunch affecting more and more businesses, organisations are being forced to tighten their belts and monitor every aspect of spending, which means that companies have to work even harder to attract new customers, whilst at the same time keeping existing ones on board as well.

 

What this means, is that you need to do something special in order to give yourself the competitive edge. Corporate hospitality, at sporting events such as horse racing, is one of the ways you can successfully achieve this.

 

The Benefits of Racing Hospitality

 

Corporate hospitality is all about one thing, making a lasting impression on clients. Whether you are entertaining prospective new clients, existing clients or even your own staff, racing hospitality offers a great opportunity to build a rapport with people, in a fun and relaxed environment.  Once the champagne is flowing, guests will start to loosen up and have a good time, making it the perfect way to get know people and get them on board with you.

 

The Sport of Kings


They don’t call it the sport of kings for nothing. Horse racing truly is one of the finest sports in the world. So why not take in all of the exciting action in your very own corporate box?

 

Wining and Dining


Corporate hospitality simply wouldn’t be complete without an exquisite dining experience. This is why every racing hospitality venue offers a range of menu options to choose from, to ensure that you wine and dine your guests in style.

 

Speculate to Accumulate


To use a business analogy, sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate, even if you are finding the current economic climate hard going. The recession may have left your business feeling the pinch, but this doesn’t mean that you should see expenses such as corporate entertainment as an easy way to save money. Instead, you should see events such as racing hospitality as an investment. If you invite a number of potential clients to a day at the races, you could potentially win a lucrative new contract, which could mean that the event easily pays for itself.

 

The Winning Post


Once you have experienced corporate hospitality at a horseracing event, as either a host or a guest, you’re certain to be convinced as to how effective it can be for spending time with clients, and other like minded people.  Who knows, as a guest, you might meet other people who need your products and services, and as a host you might meet some more fantastic contacts.

 

Why not find out when the next race meeting is at your nearest horseracing venue today?

 

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Tom Fool – The Incredible Thoroughbred from 1950's – EzineMark

March 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A grade 3 event, the Tom Fool Handicap race came into existence as an honour paid to one of the finest thoroughbreds from the world racing history, Tom Fool, who was ranked 11 by the Blood-Horse magazine for his amazing performance as a potential thoroughbred highly renowned for his supremacy over many contenders of his generation.

The handicap race started in the year 1975, just a year before Tom Fool’s demise. The race open to three year olds and up is run for six furlongs and offers prize money of $150,000. Run annually at the Aqueduct in the first quarter of the year, the record performance has been achieved by Calibrachoa in 2011; previous record performance was accomplished by Left Bank in 2002 when the race was run at 7 furlongs.

The recognition of honouring Tom Fool with a thoroughbred race happened due to his excellence at racing as well as at siring. Tom Fool sired as many as 30 stakes winners which include U.S. Horse of the Year 1966, Buckpasser; Triple Crown races winner Tim Tam and leading two year old and sire Silly Season.

Tom Fool’s career was one that sported a good 30 starts in a career of three years with only one out of money finish. He won 21 races, finished second in 7 and third in 1. His first racing year as a Two-Year-Old saw him competing in 7 races in all; he won five of them and finished second in 2. This brought him to instant limelight as he won the Champion Two Year Old Colt for 1951.

Having finished second in the 1952 Wood Memorial Stakes, one which was greatly anticipated to be an obvious win for the three year old, Tom Fool underwent a veterinarian check-up that revealed he had contracted fever and had contended for the race while still ill. The bad health kept him out of many prominent races including the Triple Crown. However with his comeback almost a couple of months later, Tom Fool went on to win the Jerome Handicap and finish third in the Travers. He also won the Empire City Handicap and pulled of a twelve race in the money finish in a season of thirteen starts.

He started once again as a four year old and avenged his Triple Crown absence with a win at the New York Handicap Triple Crown winning all three Metropolitan Handicap along with the Suburban and Brooklyn Handicap. Tom Fool was awarded the Horse of the Year award for his incredible performance as an older horse. 1965, he was also a leading sire in Britain and Ireland. Blood-Horse magazine ranked him 11 and the Hall of Fame inducted the racer in 1960.

Tom Fool and many other fine thoroughbreds can now be raced on a virtual platform that showcases these amazing horses from the world racing history simulated in 3D by HorseRaceGame.Cool online racing games bring to all racing fans the sport of horse racing for free in a downloadable version so each ones of us can enjoy the game. More than 5000 thoroughbreds await simulated with high accuracy and precision bringing to life the whole racing experience so realistically as if it were the grand stands at our fingertips. The gaming consoles support both downloaded and online versions along with an online interactive board that allows players to share information and race feedbacks, scores, strategies all online.

Follow the simple registration to find yourself at the doorstep of the exciting world of games, one that is extremely hard to resist if you are one true aficionado!

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Construction Workers Welfare Legislation in India

February 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment

India has enough Labour legislation but due to lack of political will and timely implementation, such legislation remains on the statute book without having its force. The Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and The Building and other construction workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 are the glaring example. These twin Acts were passed by the Parliament in the year 1996 and subsequently “the building and other construction workers’ (Regulation of employment and conditions of service) central Rules and The Building and other construction workers welfare Cess Rules were framed. More than 15 years these two Acts are not fully implemented.

In building and other construction works more than tens of millions of workers are engaged, who are exposed to higher risk of life and limb. These workers are one of the most vulnerable segments of the unorganized labour and don’t get basic amenities and social security. These twin Acts were enacted with an object to regulate the employment and conditions of the service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measures.

The scheme of the BOCW (Regulation of Employment and conditions of Service) Act, 1996 is that it empowers the Central Government and the State Governments to constitute Welfare Boards to provide and monitor social security schemes and welfare measures for the benefit of the building and other construction workers. As per the section 1(4) the BOCW Act applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, ten or more building workers in any building or construction work. Section 2 (d) of the Act defines “the building and other construction works”. Section 7 of the Act requires every employer in relation to an establishment to which the BOCW Act applies to get such establishment registered. Section 10 makes this requirement mandatory and therefore, without such registration, the employer of an establishment, to which the BOCW Act applies, cannot employ building workers.

Chapter IV of the BOCW Act contains provisions stipulating the registration of building workers as beneficiaries and requires certain contributions to be made by such beneficiary at such rate per month as may be specified by the State Government. Where the worker is unable to pay his contribution due to any financial hardship, the Board can waive the payment of such contribution for a period not exceeding three months at a time.

Section 18 sets out the constitution of State Welfare board. Under the provision of the section 18 every State Govt. is required to constitute the Welfare Board. Section 22 stipulates the provisions regarding functions of the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Boards. Section 24 sets out the provision for the constitution of the Welfare Fund and its application.

Chapter VI of the BOCW Act contains provisions relating to the safety, health and welfare of the construction workers.

The Building and other construction workers’ welfare Cess Act’1996 was enacted with an object to provide for the levy and collection of a Cess on the cost of construction incurred by the employers with a view to augmenting the resources of the Building and other construction Workers’ welfare Boards constituted under the section 18 of the Building and other construction Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act’1996.

Section 3 of the BOCW Cess Act setout the provisions for levy and collection of Cess at such rate not exceeding two percent, but not less than one percent of the cost of the construction incurred by the Employer. Rule 4 of the Building and other construction workers’ welfare Cess Rules, 1998 makes it mandatory for deduction of Cess payable at the notified rates from the bills paid for the building and other construction work of a Government or a Public Sector Undertaking. Rule 5 prescribes the manner in which the proceeds of Cess collected under Rule 4 shall be transferred by such Government office, Public Sector Undertakings, local authority, or Cess collector, to the Board. The powers of the Assessing Officer and the Board of Assessment are enumerated in Rules 7 to 14 of the Cess Rules.

Although the twin Acts were enacted in 1996, but a majority of states failed to implement the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service) Act, 1996, and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996 untill 2002, when Government of NCT of Delhi constituted the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board vide Notification No. DLC/CLA/BCW/02/596 dated 2nd September, 2002. A PIL was filed by an NGO National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour’ (NCC-CL) in the Supreme Court for implementation of the Twin Acts.

On the direction of the Supreme Court issued in the matter of National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour’ (NCC-CL) most of the states has constituted the Labour Welfare Board and started collecting Cess @ 1% of the Construction Cost where the construction cost is more than 10 Lacs.

The constitutional validity of the BOCW Act was also challenged by the Builders Association in the Builders Association of India vs Union of India, (2007) 139 DLT 578. The Division of the Delhi High court upheld that the BOCW Act, the Cess Act, 1998 Central Rules and the 2002 Delhi Rules were constitutionally valid.

The supreme court of India in civil appeal no. 1830 0f 2008 entitled M/S. Dewan Chand Builders Contractors versus Union of India  has also upheld the constitutional validity of the twin Acts.

Although the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the twin Acts but the issue regarding effective date of the Cess Act is still unresolved. The Supreme Court in Dewan Chand Builder Case a view has been taken that the Cess Act and the Cess Rules are operative in the whole of NCT of Delhi w.e.f. January, 2002. But in SLP (C) 33486-33488 of 2011 Supreme Court has observed that the as per Section 1(3) of BOCW Act provides that the Act shall be deemed to have been come into force on 1st day of March’1996.

On concluding note it can be said that implementation of twin Acts has been a major concern. A critical factor impeding effective implementation is lack of political will of the state authorities and influence of builders lobby on them.

Author: Azeez Nazar Sabri (LLM Business Law). For more information write to him at/to azeezsabri@gmail.com.

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