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It’s a well known fact that construction workers in India work in extremely poor conditions. They are badly paid, work without any safety gears, not been offered proper living facilities and remain deprived of welfare schemes. Though some of the big infrastructure companies have taken initiative to implement various safety measures for their construction workers, the remaining vast section is still to follow those.
The Delhi High Court-appointed committee which was set up to investigate alleged exploitation of construction workers attached to Commonwealth Games-related projects reveals no new surprise. The NGO who filed the PIL in High Court claimed in its report that workers continue to work without being paid minimum wages and they are being made to work overtime. There are no clean and hygiene place for them to live, the report alleged. The committed said that the charges made in the PIL are ‘well founded’ and recommended exemplary fine for errant authorities.
This is very sad to know that projects of such magnitude which involves major infrastructure companies and draws lots of global attentions are levelled with charges of exploitation. Many blame the contractors who hire these migrant workers on contract basis, depriving them from welfare schemes.
The government needs to become stringent on this issue and make sure those workers are given their dues. Otherwise, the issue of workers’ exploitation which is probably confined to India only, will very soon become a known thing for whole world.

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