Area Scan – Gandhi Nagar (construction sites)

Location	3 communities in Gandhi Nagar (Near Hiranandani Meadows and MMRDA construction sites)
Dwellers	Migrants construction site workers from Aasam, Bihar, UP, Maharashtra other parts of India
Volunteers	Divya, Sharmistha and Krishna
Approximate population of the locality:	20 – 30 families
Date:	4/21/2010
Time:	11:30 AM to 17:30 AM
Approximate area of the locality:	3 communities with less than 100 square meter area
Approximate population of the locality:	20-30 families each community
Ruling entity:	TMC
Concerned Government Official:	Not known
Source of water	Common tap
Time of water supply:	Not know
Frequency of water supply:	Not know
Anganwadi:	Not accessible
Balwadi:	Not accessible
Health Care Center:	No
Private Clinic	No
Public Toilets:	No
NO. for Ladies:	0
NO. for Gents:	0
Industries:	NA
Employment Options:	Daily wage construction workers
Child Labour:	Yes (At few construction sites (MMRDA site) Child labor was involved ), however developers such as Hiranandani follow No Child Labour policy at their construction site
NO. of Child Labours:	5-10
Type of work children seen doing:	We observed few children picking something from drainage and locality garbage bin. We asked them to take us to their families.
Possible reasons for school dropouts:	For most of these children at construction site access to school is not available. However few of the families are sending their children to near by private school. As per their parents these school (Deepa public school – 9892816220 & MG public school) are charging on an average 150-200 per month per student.
Problems observed:	Access to Anganwadi and Balwadi Illiterate and hesitant parents Building developer not paying any attention towards workers children Access to municipality schools Hygiene- drainage system was bad in these localities, children were seen playing in and near dry sewage.
Known schemes/policies of government related to the issues observed:	Nil
Level of the awareness in the community about various government initiatives:	Nil
Comments:	· It seems building developers thinks that their responsibility ends just by giving employment to these migrants workers or putting a sign at site that ‘Child labour prohibited’. The access to health care and schools for the children of construction workers should also be part of their responsibility. · In the families where both man and woman works, the eldest child is the care taker of the younger children. No matter whether the eldest child is 4 year old or 14 year old. · 90% of these workers wants to provide education to their children but don’t know how.