Long time back i read an article on how the system of certification of workers was started in the States. It says that somebody questioned that fact that one needed a license to cut hair but anybody could walk int a house and start tempering with the plumbing or other installations! In came a proposal to have training and certification for construction workers
Considering the fact that we have a whole new country to build the need to have a properly trained and certified worker on our work sites is very urgent and important
While it may be easy to train and certify large number of workers with the help of PPP it may prove difficult to implement on ground. One easy way is to make the system so attractive that all agencies adopt it and in fact encourage it.
What needs to be done is following:
All workers who undergo training and certification must be provided with an "ADHAR CARD & A BANK ACCOUNT". How to operate an ATM or check their bank accounts or where the branches are must also be a part of the curriculam
All agencies who engage certified workers must be encouraged to pay the salaries directly into the bank accounts of the workers. This can be achieved by just returning a fixed percentage of the salary deposited by the agency to it from the monies earned by the Govt. This corpus can be generated by simply levying a small percentage on the total built up area being sanctioned at the time of the sanction being accorded on the developer and depositing this in a national account from where it will be returned back to the contracting agency. For the developer this can be incentivised by allowing them to charge this amount plus a small percentage as interest and administrative expenditure from the end consumer. Thus in the end it will be end consumer who will pay, and infact should pay, as het gets better quality. In this manner the actual expenditure gets distributed over a large number of people, in a transparent manner, making the burden light and the money goes to actual beneficiary.
This system will encourage contarctors to only retain trained and certified workers.
A question may arise about the loopholes that this system may have. One may argue that workers could lend their names, without actually working on sites, to enable agencies to draw monies. This can be simply eliminated by the use of Aadhar number. A worker drawing salary in his account from two sources could be identified easily and hauled up and black listed. Thus, after black listing even if he gets employment the refund to the employer will not be forthcoming. To make the system more efficient the refund of the money should be automatic and online so that the contracting agencies are not harrased to get their dues.
Like all other proposals the system will bring in transparency and help monitoring and reduce corruption.
Is it so difficult to do this??
Considering the fact that we have a whole new country to build the need to have a properly trained and certified worker on our work sites is very urgent and important
While it may be easy to train and certify large number of workers with the help of PPP it may prove difficult to implement on ground. One easy way is to make the system so attractive that all agencies adopt it and in fact encourage it.
What needs to be done is following:
All workers who undergo training and certification must be provided with an "ADHAR CARD & A BANK ACCOUNT". How to operate an ATM or check their bank accounts or where the branches are must also be a part of the curriculam
All agencies who engage certified workers must be encouraged to pay the salaries directly into the bank accounts of the workers. This can be achieved by just returning a fixed percentage of the salary deposited by the agency to it from the monies earned by the Govt. This corpus can be generated by simply levying a small percentage on the total built up area being sanctioned at the time of the sanction being accorded on the developer and depositing this in a national account from where it will be returned back to the contracting agency. For the developer this can be incentivised by allowing them to charge this amount plus a small percentage as interest and administrative expenditure from the end consumer. Thus in the end it will be end consumer who will pay, and infact should pay, as het gets better quality. In this manner the actual expenditure gets distributed over a large number of people, in a transparent manner, making the burden light and the money goes to actual beneficiary.
This system will encourage contarctors to only retain trained and certified workers.
A question may arise about the loopholes that this system may have. One may argue that workers could lend their names, without actually working on sites, to enable agencies to draw monies. This can be simply eliminated by the use of Aadhar number. A worker drawing salary in his account from two sources could be identified easily and hauled up and black listed. Thus, after black listing even if he gets employment the refund to the employer will not be forthcoming. To make the system more efficient the refund of the money should be automatic and online so that the contracting agencies are not harrased to get their dues.
Like all other proposals the system will bring in transparency and help monitoring and reduce corruption.
Is it so difficult to do this??
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