May 8, 2020: Although the government has permitted the recommencement of construction activities in non-Covid hotspots in a couple of district, according to developers, nothing has actually moved on the ground and the labour force is very lean.
Availability of raw materials is another challenge as many state borders need to open for that to let trucks in.
“Each project is currently moving with one-third capacity, there would be around 10,000 labourers actively engaged in the city. Noida-Greater Noida real estate projects absorb around 3 lakh construction workers when operations are in full swing. Now they are just managing with whatever they have. Moreover, not all projects have onsite workers, so those which had, began work. All the projects have been asked to follow social distancing norms with mandatory wearing of masks,” said RK Arora, president of National Real Estate Development Council (Naredco)-UP.
“We have requested the authorities to allow workers from neighbouring villages to come and join work. There are various kinds of work at the construction site, masons may be staying on site but what about plumbers, electricians and carpenters — we need to source these people from neighbouring villages and without this manpower, we can’t work on completion,” Pankaj Bajaj, president of Credai-NCR, said.
Amit Modi, vice president, Credai Western UP, added, “The borders are sealed so obviously there is no truck to bring the raw materials to the sites. Second, the contractors who organise workers for our sites are mostly residents of Delhi. So, until the Delhi-Noida border opens, very little will be achieved at our projects.”
The builders have been asking for monetary relaxation in view of the losses incurred by them due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“And our fear is that now after tending to the workers through the lockdown, as the commute gets eased many workers would want to return to their villages. We have already lost a huge number of workforce and we could actually be left with major workforce crunch in the coming days,” Arora added.
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