Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- India's direct transfers of cash to the beneficiaries of a host of social sector schemes, and rural jobs programme that assures 100 days of wage employment to at least one member of every village household are preventing workers from moving away from their hometowns, sparking labour shortages in large cities and other economic centres across the country, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan has said.
He said that the workforce migration crisis in the country, where labourers are unwilling to move locations, is being felt on businesses and infrastructure development in cities.
According to a report published in The Hindu, Subrahmanyan highlighted the challenges in getting labourers to move to centres of econo...