Combating The Manpower Crunch!
Ar Apurva Bose Dutta
First the good news – India's Construction Sector is booming and the demand for real estate as a result of unprecedented urbanization is growing at an enviable rate. The bad news – the realty and construction sectors are facing a grave situation of manpower shortage. For such an upsurging demand, whether it is skilled or unskilled manpower – the sector needs both of them equally and unfortunately, the sector has unavailability of both of them. Many realty projects have witnessed indefinite delays due to such shortage especially labour shortage which also leads to more expensive manpower. This invites an additional financial encumbrance which finally affects the cost of the real estate, affecting in turn the buyers. While unskilled manpower crunch has hit the construction sector the most, there exists skilled manpower shortage too for jobs like Project managers, Mid-level engineers, Equipment operators etc. The supply of skilled and unskilled manpower for the construction sector is being estimated of falling short by over 10 million.
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NBM&CW October 2012
