CIDC's HRD Initiatives

Sunil Mahajan, Director, CIDC, New Delhi

Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC), New Delhi, has been set up in March, 1996 by the Planning Commission, Government of India along with the constituents of Indian Construction Industry as the apex organization with the twin objectives of professionalizing the functioning and providing systemic institutional structure to various construction activities.

HRD for Construction workers in India was one of the first major development projects taken up by CIDC. The immense size of the work force, its unorganized nature, mobility and non-permanence of the workers made it mandatory to adopt non-conventional techniques for imparting instruction.