• Contractual workers – including informal • The local community finds employment at the workers9 – and induced livelihoods are dependent plant and remains vulnerable to repurposing: on the TPP and vulnerable to repurposing: TPPs employ a combination of local and migrant Contractual and informal workers engaged in the workers. [...] In the words of a resident describing their • Local contractors, who supply labour and rent relationship with the plant: machinery to the TPP are dependent on the plant but are less vulnerable: Section 3.1 of the report discusses the role of contractors and their relationship with the contracted workers. [...] In the context of a power plant transition or • Local community dependence is varied and also repurposing, depending on the repurposing option and conditional on access to the educational and environmental compliances therein, the environmental healthcare services provided by the plant: Our study impact will be relatively positive in terms of potentially found that the local community does not hav. [...] While encourage workers to enrol in and stick with skill the quantum of workers that need to be retained training, programmes should communicate prior to will be determined by the labour intensity and enrolment the work opportunities and wage returns technology adopted for the repurposing, the workers they can gain following the training. [...] Such existing informal worker skill sets (in comparison to infrastructure may include the extension of healthcare the standards of performance provided by the National services for ailments typical to the region and quality Occupation Standards and Qualification Pack for each job primary and secondary educational services with role), and (iii) a comparison of these skills and the skill scholarship.
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Table of Contents
- Executive summary 1
- A. Key insights 3
- Even informal workers possess niche technical skills that need to be retrained to retain in the repurposing scenario. 4
- B. Recommendations 5
- 1. Introduction 6
- 3.2 to 4 lakh workers are directly dependent on thermal power plants in India. 6
- We studied dependence in the form of multiple factors including income employment education healthcare and access to public utilities. 7
- 2. Research methodology 8
- 2.3 Approach to site sampling 8
- Our findings are most relevant for large non-pit head plants located far away from densely populated regions. 8
- 2.4 Approach to respondent sampling and sample size 10
- 2.5 Data collection and analysis 12
- 3.Study findings Worker and community dependence on a TPP in India 12
- 3.1 Examining worker distribution in a TPP 12
- Categories of workers at the TPP 14
- 3.2 Comparing current dependency on TPPs with vulnerability in the context of a transition 15
- More vulnerable to a transition in terms of loss of jobs and livelihoods 15
- Less vulnerable to a transition in terms of loss of jobs and livelihoods 16
- 4. Recommendations 17
- A baseline skills assessment is imperative to know the level of skills training needed for each worker category. 17
- References 19
- The authors 22
