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How this startup is making construction workers aware of their rights
Updated On: 07 May, 2023 09:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Gautam S Mengle
Even as a startup is making construction workers aware of wage parity and rights, experts say the rot of apathy and exploitation runs too deep to be fixed overnight
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Among the largest informal workforces in India, construction workers live on the edge every day to make a living. Police officials say that in almost every case of a worker’s death due to accidents on site, it’s usually the lack of safety gear and harnesses,safety let’s of ply to cover pits that emerges as the reason. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
When Satya Vyas visited the site of an ongoing construction project in Borivli last year, he expected to see a professional set up, with all aspects taken care of. But he was in for a rude shock.
“It was a Tier-I real estate developer’s project, handled by a well-known contractor. But the workers at the site were lodged in a basic shelter with no sanitation whatsoever. It was the peak of monsoon season and the entire site was infested with mosquitoes,” he recalls. The very next day, a worker contracted malaria and four others after him in the days to come. Vyas brought this to the attention of the contractor, who simply shrugged it off. Finally, Vyas and his team arranged for mosquito nets and repellents, and provided them to the construction workers.
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