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.
