Will the construction industry genuinely draw fresh lessons from this tragedy and ensure greater safety at their project sites? Will the state labour department draw clear-cut norms for safety at construction sites and penalise those who don’t follow these safety norms? Given India’s shameful record and litany of deaths of construction workers at project sites, there is no reason for any optimism on this score. The Kondhwa case is different because of the large number of construction workers killed at the camp. The builders had demanded that the registering of first information reports (FIR) against them following accidents at construction sites should be stopped.

Source: Hindustan Times July 01, 2019 08:48 UTC