Was Just thinking can we control corruption in construction Industry?

Construction Industry is very much infamous for its level of corruption. Can there be any remote chance that construction industry be wiped out of corruption?

In my previous narration I've mentioned a person who is using his family problems as an excuse. Is their any possibility that this man would have caught the manager red handed and now just black mailing him?

I tink that there is a posibility.

So what can be done to remove or reduce the corruption from construction industry? Amazingly all the big mafias belongs to either construction or drugs. So, so much of money and lot of space to correlate money to events may be the reason for this corruption. but still what can be done?????????

Could family problem be sought towards the delay of project and a justification of negative attitude in work place?

My contractor's engineer is full of negative attitude towards the work and unfortunately he feels that his problem is the greatest one in life. I was wondering for the whole duration of project whether the family problem of just one of the new engineers in a company could be the reason for senior management to scummed to the negative attitude of a person and accept this as a way of life.

Somehow I couldn't figure out why do a manager (visiting manager) depends on a person who comes at 11:00 AM (official time is 9:00 AM) and leaves at 5:00 to 6:00 PM, creates hurdle in all the running work and humiliates client?

Is India ready for such a holocaust of engineers or should Indian government lay down few rules and regulations so that every tom-dick & harry could not contribute negatively. But then what the hell rules and regulation will do? Just add on to more miseries as they are doing it for other "rights laws".

Should the contractors and clients not be taught how to behave professionally?

This work place politics... What to do? A million dollar question....

But my question remains their it self. Can a person facing some or other family problem (which is also not God gifted but are created by himself) be allowed by the contractor owner to create nuisance at site and bring bad name to the contractor. "OR" this is the contractor who is asking this engineer to behave in a weired manner so that he can extract more undue claims caused by their own carelessness?

The integrity of contractor is doubtful. Now what should contractor do "OR" for that matter what should client's engineer do?

But certainly the family problem of one person can not become justification of a projects delay.

Is scarcity of skilled resources reason enough for unprofessional attitude????

We have a contractor who is executing civil works for our project. Unfortunately they never had experienced engineers, foreman or even project manager. Being a professional company our management decided to help the contractor by giving him enough support in terms of engineers and technical know how. unfortunate again! the local people of contractor took this for granted and as their right. They started misbehaving with our engineers, managers and even the project head. The single line flat unaswer from their end is - "This is your project if you want us to execute an activity then allow us to do this in this vague manner or ask our owner to execute it on its own". This is rediculous but my project in-charge always used to come out with the execuse "What to do with this, let us do it on our own".

This is unbearable because you are paying the price of their lack of experience by not only compromising with quality but also with your own respect. I can't understand that who the hell on earth has given those immature people the right to insult others. This I feel is the height of inferiority complex.

I always think that "What whould i've done in case I would've been there on their place?" But I was there at their place, I've worked with a construction company for almost Ten years. We were told to respect quality and progress by all means even if client allows us to do inferior job. Why their is such a huge gap in the attitude of two construction companies? After all both belongs to India with a Indian heading it, both are working for profits and good market reputation.

Is really scarcity of skilled engineers has led our construction industry to accept people with bad attitude and no experience? Are we ready or have we accepted the poor quality standards because we cannot provide good engineers? Shoul this not become mandatory that a government which is spending lakhs and lakhs of rupees on the generation of one engineer also checks wheather an engineer is really producing quality products year by year?

But still I cannot understand the justification of unprofessional attitude of people in the contractor or client side, just for the lack of experience......

What would you do with liars in execution?

I've a team of people from my contractor side who would love to lie always on one pretext or another. They will spend the whole day with all the resources and money on one activity without going through the drawing and details. They will delegate it to some inexperienced person and if something wrong goes then ......... "His fault". Si, these days you don't get good engineers and foreman, what to do?
Don't you think that this is the responsibility of seniors to train their juniors and prepare them for better future.

"Sir these days if you train one person they simply switch over the job for better; so why to train them?"

Wow! what an excuse for not training or developing new comers.

I generally ask myself how to handle this situation? But I'm not able to understand any answer for this. Puzzled!.........

State of Engineers

Since long civil engineers were prone towards harassment and they started quitting the field, net result when boom came there was dearth of engineers in this field and any tom, dick and harry who got some certificate in this course got the chance to exploit the present boom in construction industry.

But the question remained same, why the civil engineers started leaving their field and opted for something better? Was the stability criteria for betterment or the better wages or the better treatment by fellow workers or a personal space which everyone needs for himself /her self?

Too many questions! as they are not the questions, rather answers, what civil engineers in India and across the world use to give. Government is spending a huge amount in creating engineers but no one is willing to ask what happens to this unorganised sector? Why the biggest creator of jobs is still unorganised? Why do people cry foul on working conditions? Why there is no one to look or hear the grievance of engineers in this sector?

Innumerable questions but no one to answer.

May be this is the reason when India was exposed to huge infrastructure development there were few to support the execution and those who were left were either too tired to contribute or were not able to contribute due to lack of skill. No company is willing to spend on staff development lest about good working conditions (barring a few).

I'm in this field since last 15 years and seen / executed almost 10 Projects ranging from few crores to few thousand crores value but there was one thing common that no one was happy or satisfied with there working atmosphere and no HR was willing to know the reason why? One of my colleagues used to tell me that he has not seen his daughter growing rather he saw her sleeping all the time because the time he left she was sleeping and by the time he reaches back she was still sleeping. Isn't this ironical... but unfortunately no government is willing to look into the working conditions of construction engineers forget about workers.

I was watching a program on one of the news channel where they mentioned the ethical / racist treatment of Indians abroad. They showed that Indians are not being respected. What a coincidence that we do not treat our self respectfully but we do expect others to respect us. Wow! Isn't this amazing?

I feel that just because we do not treat our self respectfully and our other fellow Indians respectfully that's why people get a chance to insult us or take us for granted. May be I'm not sounding convincing but I feel that the major cause of our miseries across the world is the ill treatment of ourselves to our self rather than by others.

One day I hope that Indian government will wake up and introduce a course on confidence building and culture development as a compulsory course in every class and institute along with telling engineers to start respecting themselves and others.