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Shortage of skilled manpower
The construction sector might be booming. The cityscape is changing, once desolate outskirts are getting metamorphosed with tall structures. But the industry is not bereft of its share of woes. While focus has remained on land costs or spiralling prices of material such as cement and steel, a big problem confronting the builders’ community is the acute shortage of skilled and trained manpower.
The shortage is felt at every level from engineer to draughtsman to mason. Such is the state of affairs that builders admit they are forced to source even the labour from other States.
The kind of construction activity taking place is unprecedented and from a small clutch of builders, the community in the city had swollen unimaginably. Developers and builders from the other States and from other countries too are here. International practices have come in the recent times and construction has started going more and more vertical, something that is new for the local workforce.
Adds G.Yoganand, Managing Director, Manjeera Constructions, “This is a piquant situation which we never faced here. The need is so high that we are forced to get workers from other States such as Orissa and West Bengal”.
‘Brain drain’
A sort of reverse brain-drain was happening. Engineers who had shifted to software have started to come back to the field. “Civil engineers who went to the U.S. and U.K. have realised the potential that is on offer and thinking is going on about returning home,” says Mr.Yoganand.
Pochender, CEO, Lanco Hills, agrees on this. The requirement is at all levels, particularly the groups that have gone corporate and have big projects to take care of. ““The construction industry is in the process of assembling adequate skilled workforce to meet its deadlines. There is a date when a project is to be completed and that schedule is non-negotiable, particularly for the corporate groups,” points out Mr. Pochender.
T.LALITH SINGH, HYDERABAD
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