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Human resource is probably the most neglected issue in the construction industry today. And the industry has started to feel the pinch now. One of the executives from a big infrastructure company I was talking to said that there are colleges which have stopped offering civil engineer courses. This, probably, all started with the IT boom that India begun to witness during the 1990s. A new trend emerged where large section of young students chose to opt for IT than civil engineering courses.

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But lot has changed since then. Construction is now much happening sector in India. The whole country is literally in construction mood. Right from roads, highways, bridges, buildings to houses, the construction works are happening all across the country. But the industry has started to face severe crunch for skilled labours and engineers. We don’t have enough engineers today neither will have in nearest tomorrow because we have not started taking enough corrective measures. And it takes time to build engineers and architects.

There is urgent need for collective measures from both government agencies and private players to tackle the situation. Some private players have been focusing on human resource building by establishing institutions but that’s certainly not enough for a country which needs huge number of skilled manpower. We need to start building new institutes which can produce more number of engineers and project persons every year. Also, the existing institutes need to offer wider range of industry specific courses. A large number of labours and civil engineers still migrate to Gulf countries for jobs. We need to come up with lucrative packages and facilities to retain them with in India.

To sustain India’s growth story, we need to produce our own resources and not entirely rely on expats. Let’s begin today.

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