Unarticulated Challenges Encountered By Inter-State Immigrant Workforce: A Case Study In Context To Indian Construction Industry

Abstract

The construction industry is the essential sector growing in India at an expeditious rate. In Uttarakhand, most labours migrated from other states of India into this state due to the vast amount of construction taking place over the past six to seven years. According to a study by the Construction Workers Federation of India, out of 6 crores, only 3.5 crores of labours are registered on the welfare board, which faces major problems like unawareness about government schemes, fluctuating wages, no statutory holiday, covid-19 crisis, unhealthy living conditions, biased behaviour of contractors, lack of medical and education help, facing major health and psychological problems. This research is based on qualitative approaches. Questions were framed which were asked through indepth interviews with the labourers including 40 construction companies. The results of the interview-based case study depicted the real scenario and the condition of the Migrant labourers in India.