Although the construction industry employs 33 million people, second only to the agricultural sector, the incremental workforce requirement is around four million people per year over the next couple of years and the construction industry is in the grip of a talent crunch. With growing scale and increased number of projects, the requisite skill-sets are in short supply. The challenge is enormous considering the exponential growth of the industry amidst negligible or almost no change in the supply scenario of skilled and semi-skilled manpower.
Clearly, in skilling the construction workforce Tata Housing found an opportunity to help business and at the same time alleviate poverty and unemployment in the neighborhood communities.