Manpower demand in construction to cross 90 million by 2010.

The biggest challenge facing this sector is the lack of skilled and quality human resources.
Construction Workers:
India’s construction work force is vast but largely untrained. The questionable quality of much work testifies to the fact that only some 15% of India’s estimated 30 million construction workers has been through structured training, according to the Mumbai-based Construction Industry.

Job Opportunities- Construction- Civil

The booming Indian construction industry, currently worth $70 billion, would soar up to a value of $120 billion by 2010, giving rise to a demand for manpower of over 90 million, says a leading industry lobby.

The sector, which currently employs about 30 million people, would provide immense direct and indirect job opportunities  requiring both skilled and unskilled workforce within the same period.
The construction industry, as it grows, would also require a large number of civil engineers and even though thousands of engineering graduates pass out in India, a minimal number prefers civil engineering jobs to IT, BPO and banks, the study noted.

The construction sector is actually worse-off than the software sector, since engineers perceive software as a 'glamorous' career, and therefore, the sector is losing out to its more glamorous software cousin.