Rise of Job Opportunities in Building Sector
The construction industry has got a big boost when the government’s stimulus package put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure building. Government has lined up over 100 US billion dollars for developing infrastructural facilities such as world class airports, ports and other infra structural facilties. Survey finding that most jobs are likely to be created in Metro and Tier 2 cities is backed by number of projects to be completed in various job rich states as per the table below;
Projects set to be completed in 2010 in States with job-rich facilities
|
State/cities
|
No.of projects
|
Estimated value(INR in crores)
|
|
Maharashtra(Mumbai,pune)
|
276
|
60000
|
|
Tamil nadu(Chennai)
|
215
|
52000
|
|
Andra Pradesh(Hyderabad)
|
181
|
60000
|
|
Gujarat(Ahmedabad)
|
179
|
78000
|
|
Karnatak(Bangalore)
|
172
|
46000
|
|
West Bengal(Kolkata)
|
154
|
40000
|
|
Kerala(Cochin)
|
80
|
8500
|
|
Delhi/NCR
|
74
|
47000
|
|
Punjab(Chandigarh)
|
70
|
12000
|
Courtsey : INDIAN CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE, May 2010
