Rural jobs scheme, direct benefit transfers causing labour shortages: L&T chair
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's direct transfers of cash to the beneficiaries of a host of social sector schemes, and rural jobs programme that assures 100 days of wage employment to at least one member of every village household are preventing workers from moving away from their hometowns, sparking labour shortages in large cities and other economic centres across the country, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan has said.
He said that the workforce migration crisis in the country, where labourers are unwilling to move locations, is being felt on businesses and infrastructure development in cities. Also read | Govt appoints L&T's Subrahmanyan to help frame factory safety rules According to a report published in The Hindu, Subrahmanyan highlighted the challenges in getting labourers to move to centres of economic activity, apart from the high rates of attrition that is also frequent. "This means, for employing 400,000 labourers, we employed 1.6 million labourers.
We have a database of 4 million people with us, their names, their Jan Dhan bank account, their Aadhaar number, the village they come from, their skillsets. There is a site in the western part of the country, where I am supposed to mobilise 50,000 labourers. I need people, but they are not willing to come," he said at the CII Mystic South Global Linkages Summit in Chennai on Tuesday.
“[There are] various reasons, which are well known to you — the Jan Dhan bank account, the direct benefit transfers... maybe the economy is doing well, so you get jobs at the place where you are... the MNREGA scheme.
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