“Innovation is the catalyst to growth”, by the beginning of 21st century one of the charges levied at construction industry of India was that it has poor record of innovation as compared to manufacturing industries like electronics and automobiles although gradually we have seen its acquittal. The growth rate of this industry is about 12% annually in an economy that ranks second among the fastest growing economies of the world. Recent newspapers were flooded with an article that quotes “Man power crunch hits construction industry” and this alarming issue wants us to focus on the innovative ideas that deal with the management of the human resources at par with the rising demands. Man power is an important asset of construction industry and based on country’s economic growth about 58.28 million persons would be employed in the infrastructure section by 2022 and as of now our country is going through labour crisis of skilled and unskilled as well. Present work force is not matching with the growing demands and delayed or stalled projects due to shortage of labours can be easily seen around. Investments in manpower development in the building industry of most developing nations have been the failure of numerous National plans and development strategies adopted by various countries and international lending institutions. As a consequence, most of these nations are experiencing serious human resource constraints in their construction industries. The review paper looks at problems being faced by the industry because of labour crisis and the possibilities of creating new human resource capacity by stabilizing the construction environment and re-orienting existing trainings.
