Kushal: Empowering Construction Workers

The Construction sector is one of the largest seasonal employment providers in India next only to agriculture and is also highly unorganized. Most of the workers are short duration out-migrants, resulting in huge shortage of skilled labour in the Industry. This shortage of talent in the construction sector has been a lingering and a long term problem, leading to an increase in project costs and risks. The education and training capacity offered through various schemes were inadequate to meet the demand of the large percentage of unskilled workers in the Indian labour market. Moreover, absence of a formal training system resulted in workers taking a long time to acquire skills, which in turn, kept their wages at a menial low. This had an adverse effect on the industry, by way of sub-standard quality, material wastage, cost increase, inability to meet time deadlines and unhappy customers.