The Invisible Workforce
Contract labour on public projects, counted nowhere.
Kochi·By M. Thomas·Kerala desk
Payroll for a metro extension listed 900 workers. Site attendance, gate logs and canteen receipts placed roughly 1,400 people on the project each week. The difference was neither insured nor entitled to compensation.
What it changed
Labour department mandated site-level worker registers.
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