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92 million man years of of this demand, resulting in a not been expanding enough
labour. 47 per cent shortage (CSCDI to match the requirement.
2022). The incremental human There is also a shortage
3. Workforce and Skillsets resource requirement between of relevant education and
in Construction and 2008 and 2022 was expected training institutions – both the
Housing Sector to be about 47 million. Given number of institutions and
With the rapid growth of the economic growth and sect infrastructure i.e., trainers
construction and housing oral growth trends, the skilled and facilities, in this sector.
sector due to the demand for and unskilled manpower Here, it is also important
development activity driven requirements would increase to examine the current
by both public and private substantially in the near structure of workforce/
investments, there has been a future. manpower in construction
great demand placed on the 3.1 Workforce structure and housing sector. Figure
various factor input resources 1 shows the employment
of housing and infrastructure Table 4 shows the growing pyramid in terms of the share
production. Manpower is workforce requirements of of workers with different
an important input resource construction and housing skillsets in C&H sector. The
(both Skilled and Unskilled) sector in India. The total Pyramid is based on NSDC
that is sought after in various workforce requirements of (2012) data. Interestingly,
construction activities – be it the construction and housing bulk of the employment (in
real estate or infrastructure sector are expected to grow terms of share of workers
development; the demand for to more than three-fold in employed) has been in the
it has only been growing over the during 2005-2030. These unskilled manpower, which
time. Based on the growth manpower requirements is required in almost every
expected in the Real Estate of the industry need a part of construction and
and Infrastructure sectors, it matching supply of skilled housing activity. However,
was estimated that about 83- much of this workforce is
90 million persons would be and unskilled workers with contractual workforce, which
required in the Construction requisite functional skillsets. constitutes temporary or
sector by 2022 but the existing However, the educational seasonal workforce migrating
supply was about 42 per cent and training institutions have from rural areas for working
Table 4: Skilled and Unskilled workforce in Construction Sector
Number of Employed (in ‘000s)
Occupation 2005 2011 2023** 2030**
Engineers 822 1,050 2,200 3,309
Technicians and Foremen 573 1,120 2,271 3,811
Clerical 738 930 1,916 2,908
Skilled Workers 3,267 3,730 6,554 10,530
Unskilled Workers 25,600 34,200 57,695 79,724
Total Workers 31,000 41,030 70,966 100,282
Source: RICS KF (2023) ** Estimates
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