Hello everyone, I have some questions for the HR professionals working in the manufacturing industry in South India:
1. How many North Indian employees work as contractors in your company?
2. Do you prefer North Indian employees over other Tamil workers?
3. If yes, what is the reason behind this preference?
Thank you.
From India, Hosur
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1. How many North Indian employees work as contractors in your company?
2. Do you prefer North Indian employees over other Tamil workers?
3. If yes, what is the reason behind this preference?
Thank you.
From India, Hosur
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I am not running any industry. But as a consultant to many manufacturing industries, I have some idea about the queries raised in the post. Therefore, I do hope that the poster would be magnanimous enough not to ask for the source. The following are my extempore thoughts at the moment I read the query:
Educational Infrastructure in Tamil Nadu
First and foremost, Tamil Nadu is one of the states with the best educational infrastructure. Particularly, the mushrooming growth of engineering colleges across the state in the last three decades feeds the needs of developing IT industries and other ITES establishments both within the state and outside it with young engineering graduates who are mostly from middle-class families. In the absence of this situation, most of them would be banking upon Central and State Governments only for employment opportunities or would have stepped into the shoes of their fathers by taking whatever jobs available in their local industries. Therefore, a sizable chunk of youth who would have formed part of the unskilled or manual labor force got shifted to the skilled category. The IT field, being a versatile one, absorbs even non-IT engineering graduates in its various activities like software development, testing, troubleshooting, etc. The modernization of manufacturing industries like textiles, sugar, and cement has converted their labor-intensive character to a considerable extent. Added to this is the boom in the construction industry demanding more manual laborers. Insofar as the remaining unskilled local labor force is concerned, most of them have developed a sense of complacency due to the lure of state-provided freebies and the chance of earning easy money through rural employment guarantee programs in almost all seasons like floods or famines and do not come forward to hard labor. The steadily increasing addiction to alcohol among the youth is another indication of the lower productivity of the existing unskilled workforce in Tamil Nadu.
Migration from Northern States
Whereas, the picture in the northern states like Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, etc., and the Northeast is totally different. Rural development, education, and public health simply remain on paper only. Socio-economic conditions like illiteracy, poverty, and frequent alternate natural disasters like floods and famines naturally compel the working masses to resort to large-scale migration in search of livelihood to economically advanced regions of the country.
Acceptance of North Indian Labor in Tamil Nadu
The comparative wages for unskilled labor are higher in Tamil Nadu, and the people of the state accept North Indian labor without any inhibitions. Since the infrastructure in communication, transport, etc., is relatively better than any other part of the country, the mobility of the migrant workmen is easier both back and forth. Enforcement of labor laws, environmental safety, and protection of human rights are relatively better, keeping labor exploitation to a minimum.
The community of interest of the migrant workmen, their hard work, their cordial behavior with the local employers and workforce, timely delivery of work, their simple lifestyle, and technical expertise in certain kinds of work make them more welcome in Tamil Nadu.
From India, Salem
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6108Educational Infrastructure in Tamil Nadu
First and foremost, Tamil Nadu is one of the states with the best educational infrastructure. Particularly, the mushrooming growth of engineering colleges across the state in the last three decades feeds the needs of developing IT industries and other ITES establishments both within the state and outside it with young engineering graduates who are mostly from middle-class families. In the absence of this situation, most of them would be banking upon Central and State Governments only for employment opportunities or would have stepped into the shoes of their fathers by taking whatever jobs available in their local industries. Therefore, a sizable chunk of youth who would have formed part of the unskilled or manual labor force got shifted to the skilled category. The IT field, being a versatile one, absorbs even non-IT engineering graduates in its various activities like software development, testing, troubleshooting, etc. The modernization of manufacturing industries like textiles, sugar, and cement has converted their labor-intensive character to a considerable extent. Added to this is the boom in the construction industry demanding more manual laborers. Insofar as the remaining unskilled local labor force is concerned, most of them have developed a sense of complacency due to the lure of state-provided freebies and the chance of earning easy money through rural employment guarantee programs in almost all seasons like floods or famines and do not come forward to hard labor. The steadily increasing addiction to alcohol among the youth is another indication of the lower productivity of the existing unskilled workforce in Tamil Nadu.
Migration from Northern States
Whereas, the picture in the northern states like Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, etc., and the Northeast is totally different. Rural development, education, and public health simply remain on paper only. Socio-economic conditions like illiteracy, poverty, and frequent alternate natural disasters like floods and famines naturally compel the working masses to resort to large-scale migration in search of livelihood to economically advanced regions of the country.
Acceptance of North Indian Labor in Tamil Nadu
The comparative wages for unskilled labor are higher in Tamil Nadu, and the people of the state accept North Indian labor without any inhibitions. Since the infrastructure in communication, transport, etc., is relatively better than any other part of the country, the mobility of the migrant workmen is easier both back and forth. Enforcement of labor laws, environmental safety, and protection of human rights are relatively better, keeping labor exploitation to a minimum.
The community of interest of the migrant workmen, their hard work, their cordial behavior with the local employers and workforce, timely delivery of work, their simple lifestyle, and technical expertise in certain kinds of work make them more welcome in Tamil Nadu.
From India, Salem
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