Patiala, May 24 -- Officials of the Punjab Building and Other Construction Workers' (BOCW) Welfare Board have been on toes as the board mistakenly transferred Rs.25 lakh into the bank accounts of construction workers twice in March. The board is learnt to have asked the officials concerned to recover the excess amount as soon as possible but it is proving an upheaval task because several workers have already withdrawn the money.

The department has already written to the bank to debit the excess amount from the accounts of construction workers. According to information, the department first transferred Rs.25.49 lakhs on March 25 into bank accounts of 182 construction workers under various welfare schemes. Four days later, the department d...