Collaboration between training institutes and educational institutions can create continuous learning opportunities, while technology partners can offer on-demand 'phygital' learning courses to upskill the existing workforce.

By digitising records, migrating processes online and organising large-scale registration camps, the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board’s schemes now cover 10 lakh workers, up from 39,000 just two years ago.

In the name of simplification and universalisation, the new labour codes will likely result in increased worker exploitation.