Construction scenes

I was entirely unsuccessful in finding anything resembling facts or even compelling assertions on the pace of construction in Bangalore. I was also unable to find any *objective* editorials on the methods. I'll grant I didn't search too hard, but anyhow. So back to my biased observations... the construction pace is utterly dizzying - everywhere, all the time. And the method is perplexingly manual to the point of being comical. And safety seems non-existent.
The average age of construction worker seems to be about 15. Every morning there are literal parades of them heading toward countless construction sites everywhere. I am not sure why many appear to be carrying beams or lumbar with them - don't the companies provide construction materials? Many times the women carry the materials on their heads - wish I had gotten a clear picture of that. I totally envy the balance and poise that must take.During my stay in Bangalore, these apartments came to be - enormous block after block of apartment buildings. Also amazing was watching them get painted, by hand. Man does that have to be an ungratifying job not set up for success. And then to do two coats... This is the common site - pylons of metal climbing into the sky. The multiple levels were put up with sequential layers of sticks as far as I can tell. Actually, it made me a little afraid to get into or near a multi-story building. I have no idea how concrete is normally poured, but I don't think I've ever seen so many sticks involved in getting to structural integrity.One of my favorite daily check-ins was with the other half of a bridge on the way to work. The first half was finished a couple months after we arrived, and the second half was about a year in coming. The construction crew was a case study in not judging a book by its cover (although I'm not quite big enough to not be a little skeptical). From what I can observe, building a bridge involves putting layer after layer of metal rods in concrete, covering it with dirt and then painting it.

Things I missed getting pictures of include pulling up to work to find a guy using a jackhammer, wearing flip-flops and no eye-wear or hearing protection. The above doesn't nearly capture how manual it all is, and how despite the fact that construction seems to take forever on every individual project, groups of projects seems started and complete all over they city, all the time. The construction site almost always come with super cute little kids around, and generally with a temporary tent village housing the mobile communities doing the construction. At times it was difficult to tell if a project was construction or destruction, and if something was newly constructed or twenty years old.
It was a fascinating thing to me and impossible to capture in a few photos.