Is skills shortage affecting India's construction boom?

SHORTAGE OF SKILLED WORKER IS AFFECTING THE CONSTRUCTION BOOM,BECAUSE SINCE LAST TWO  DECADES CIVIL ENGINEERS OF PRIVATE SECTOR WERE IN CRISIS , HENCE CIVIL ENGINEERING HAD LESS ATTRACTION AND STUDENTS ,NOW CIVIL ENGINEERS ARE COMING UP BUT IF YOU NEED EXPERIENCED PEOPLE SHORTAGE IS THERE NO DOUBT.

DUE TO RESULT OF SHORTAGE OF SKILLED EXPERIENCED PEOPLE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS IS INCREASED MAY BE DUE TO EXECUTION NEGLIGENCY OR DESIGN FAULTS.

I Choose "Yes" in supporting the argument of "Skills shortage in India". But in real, there is no skill shortage in India. There is no proper usage of the Skills of the professionals in India. For example, Some of the Govt. Engineers, Doctors are having private consultancies because of not giving them a proper working schedule as in private sectors. Also the remuneration given to them was comparatively low as compared to private and foreign sectors.

Also both in Govt. and Private sectors, there is also lack of finding skilled persons. In fact how can you make a person skilled and unskilled? by making him /her work under his own interested area or boosting him/her to work in our interested area. This is the secret of success in American and European countries. But In India, the person expert in management skills was forced to work in site execution (Field) in which there is no scope of proving his skills resulting him/her as a unskilled person.

Pragyaji,

       Infact as many of friends already discussed we have skilled persons in Management/ Technical staff and Skilled working group. Only the common phenomenon  is the "brain drain" . It is is common either in Software field or in Construction field in India.

(1) For the sake of getting lucrative jobs in Gulf countries particularly in Constructions Industry our people of moving there, since most of our people habituated for the hot climate there in.   Government has to think for fixing the problem by imposing specific policies while  issue of Visa to leave the Country.

(2) Secondly Due to more scope in IT Industry Civil Engineering field neglected in many colleges,hence the creamy people are not joining in Civil Engineering for the last two decades. This is effecting Good Civil Engineers in our Industry.Ofcourse Exceptions are there. Relatively i am comparing the  yester decades which i have seen.

N.S.Rao

A.E,C.P.W.D.

hope the government could do some good things which could change this situation.

Yes as on today lots of factors affecting the labour shortage in the market, not being construction sector other sectors are too imerging current senerio due to that migration level is high in skilled labour from construciton field to other field.

Leave aside Gulf countries, Indian construction industry is moving faster than them.Skilled persons, specifically senior cadre are definitely in short supply.We are such a big population that there is no shortage of unskilled labor in any industry. However our education system is such that we can create good academic engineers and technocrats only. Only a project based study in engineering can solve the problem at the grass root level.I have encountered such situations when a civil engineering graduate can not supervise even the basic construction like brick masonry.There is an urgent need to infuse field practicals along with theory in civil engineering and architecture branch.Literally you can observe that we have very good design engineers in our country but it is hard to find such engineers who can execute the projects on site.

Especially In kerala  the boom of construction effected shortage of skilled man power,  we have but they looking for gulf  if they are earning less also.      

In real sense, yes it is affecting.

But INDIA is never short of such skill but it is difficult to retain such skills in INDIA due to multiple reasons.

I have seen a significant rise in indian realty sector alongwith infra struture, there is also a positive gain in transparency in governance.

Although, middle east consumed most of INDIA's skilled force however the current downturn has brought certain gains to INDIA's growth as far as technicall & skilled skills are concerned.

The people expose to modern technique,system & skills are returning back home as companies are ready to offer them a good package.

This is the begining because returning home will bring fruitful results

Natteraj, I welcome ur constructive criticism.

When agricultural season starts constuction activity become dull as workers divert to agriculture work which means lot of economic activity is lost. Even in season getting workers is bcoming difficult.

As a person in construction industry I have seen so many occasions where works get postponed due to labour shortage.

In one district there were nobidders for work as there was shortage of required skilled/unskilled labour.

We have material, land , money but work is stopped for want of workers.

There are so many technologies which cannot be used for want of skilled manpower.

Natteraja ji what I feel is something constructive should be done to improve the situation.

Still there is lot of demand for housing.  Since the Metros are getting overcrowded the land cost is increasing. Shifting of activity to sattelite towns, Tier II , Tire iii  cities can give affordable houses. However it requires proper research before taking up the project so that it can be successful.

Yes. Ironically yes. Ironical because we are talking about second most populous country of the world.

There is shortage of

a. skilled labour

b. unskilled labour

c. skilled technical personell

Construction industrry alongwith Government and institutions should come together to bridge the gap and manufacture required personnel.

Thank u for the referrel  Pragyaji..

i agree with Pragya with rider,that with  comprehensive policy for compensation annouced by construction industry the flight of talents skilled and unskilled could be reduced.It is high time good packages are given particularly in case of accidents ,education,health.

I agree with you Pragya, there is shortage and once the recssion effect is over in Middle east we will face more. But at the same time I would also like to add that most of the Indian companies are not ready to recruite experienced, talented or skillful persons as you said since their demand would be much more and settle with less skillful people. And funny thing is that some engineers as well as diploma holders with 4-5 years of experience not even know the basic civil engineering.

May be Indian system of construction also one of the reason.