A worker prepares lunch at his rented residence in Dimapur. (Photos by Caisii Mao)
As construction workers move from place to place, temporary resident workers are set up at the construction site—usually a cramped room or a makeshift house and some in rented houses on their own. It is common for out-station workers to move to the construction site with their wives and small children, while the women may help move bricks and other materials but the young children miss out on school and construction site have no child care facilities where children can be placed while the parents are at work. Besides earning a pittance by the labourer, with long working hours and having no real job security, construction workers are also constantly working amid unsafe conditions. (Photos by Caisii Mao)
This is the second photo report in a three-part series about the working conditions/environment of construction workers in Nagaland as part of the Kohima Press Club & Nagaland Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board Media Fellowship 2023.
