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Abstract
The present study is aimed to explore socio-economic conditions and problems of construction workers in Chittoor District in construction sites in working environment and to document issues like gender bias, living conditions, vulnerability and slackness, wages, their economic status by finding out their savings, loans etc. The study concentrates on the construction workers who are working in the construction sector and how they are facing problems in the work place. Majority of the construction workers are facing lots of problems like absence of social security, low wages, gender discrimination, unhygienic conditions at work place etc. Data was collected from 450 sample construction workers from three revenue divisons of chittoor District. The data for this study has been collected through interview schedule. The secondary data was collected from the library, articles, journals and websites.