International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 08 Issue: 06 | June 2021
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Effective Strategies to Reduce the Impact of Skilled Labour Shortage in Construction Industry in Pune Region (India). Mr. Omkar S. Arade1, Prof. B. V. Birajdar2 1PG
Student, Civil (Construction Management), Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Warananagar, Pin – 416113, Maharashtra, 2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Warananagar, Pin – 416113, Maharashtra, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract - In India, the construction industry plays a major
within both private and public construction organizations to analyse the views of professionals’ as well as labours’.
role in economic and physical development. The construction industry has been heavily dependent on the adequate supply of skilled labour, and as a result of the skilled labour shortage in India has received considerable attention in recent years. This problem has been identified and surveyed by various researchers and found to be one of the important and everincreasing problems in the construction industry. There are existing initiatives to reduce the impact of skilled worker shortages, but most of the research has focused on increasing the skill levels of the existing workforce through training. Research exploring the impact of the possible changes during the design phase has been limited. Since the focus of this thesis is aimed to explore the reasons for the skilled labour shortage, the consequences of the skilled labour shortage, mitigation measures to overcome the shortage and to find the extent of the skilled labour shortage in the ‘Pune region India’.
The main objective of this thesis is to study and analyse the surveyed data and propose suitable strategies/mitigation methods to overcome the impact of the shortage of skilled labour.
1.1 Indian Construction Industry The construction industry is one of the most booming industries in the 21st century and remains so with the continuation of the development process, especially in developing countries. India is expected to become the thirdlargest construction market globally by 2022. In India, the construction industry plays a major role in economic and physical development. Further, it is the second-highest sector in the Indian economy after agriculture in economic activity and employs more than 51 million people out of which 90% are involved in on-site construction with the other 10% busily painting, plumbing and wiring the finished product. Nearly 9% contribution to India's GDP.
Key Words: Construction Industry, Workforce, skilled Labor, shortage, Mitigation measures.
1. INTRODUCTION
The industry is highly labour intensive, was helping in dealing with the national problem of unemployment. However, now technological improvements and innovations have begun to transform this industry into a high tech one, even in the housing sector, suited to build skyscrapers and towers. This has made the industry quite profit-oriented, yet with high risk and with poor prospects for labour, especially to the unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the industry. While the availability of an unskilled workforce will be growing, the lack of high-quality skills in the labour market is becoming even more acute. And the problem of skilled labour shortage becomes nation’s heavier one.
The construction industry is a global industry known for its generation of jobs with different skills and professionals. In terms of the value of output, the global market is reported to be around $1.5 Trillion as of today. But only a small portion of it is distributed among its workers. In the world labour market, construction workers are said to be over 100 million, constituting 6-7 % of the world labour force. India is well accepted to have reached the stage of rapid economic growth, but 'not rapid social development'. Poverty, unemployment and inequality constitute the major problems that India faces, especially from equity and social development points of view. India's labour force is predominantly unorganized, unskilled, poorly paid, of low productivity and unprotected. Among the various sections of unorganized labour, the labour in the construction industry is a large section that suffers from poor working conditions and adverse terms of work. Since there is a huge shortage of skilled labour in the Indian construction industry. The research methodology mainly deals with the study of the Present scenario of skilled labour shortage through extensive literature review and then after in the research part, A questionnaire/interview survey is to be carried out
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1.2 Labour Labour is an important resource in construction because it is the one that combines all the other resources namely materials, equipment, and finance to produce the various construction products. Labour is the one resource that affects all the other resources and it is most vulnerable to improvement. Specifications, control material, costs, profit and overhead are generally controlled by the competition. The labour left as the one resource open to improvement. BLS says construction workers perform a wide range of
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