Creches at construction sites lend a hand to migrant women workers

Lakshmi, 22-year-old construction worker from Chhattisgarh, gave birth to the youngest of her three children in December 2008 through caesarian section. She had to resume work within five days to pay off the loan she took to meet her medical expenses. In normal circumstances she would have taken her infant son to the construction site and left him in the care of his older siblings aged five and three. But her children were spared spending long hours in the harsh cold while she and her husband worked at the construction site in Sector 44, Noida. A cr