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Question
With your teacher or someone from home, go to a place where a building is being constructed. Talk to the people working there and find out answers to these questions.
- What is being built there?
- How many people are working there?
- What kind of work are they doing?
- How many men and women are there?
- Are any children working there? What are they doing?
- How much money do these people get paid daily? Ask from any three different people.
- Where do these people live?
- What are the materials being used for making the building?
- Try and guess how many trucks of bricks and bags of cement will be used for making the building.
Solution
- A big mall is being built there.
- About 500 hundred people are working there.
- Engineers were supervising the work, masons were pouring the cement on roofs and lintels, some people were carrying the materials from one place to another. Some are operating the cranes and other machines.
- 400 men and 100 women are working there.
- No, children are not working there.
Carpenter Rs. 250/- Mason Rs. 250/- Helper Rs. 250/- Crane operator Rs. 500/- Foreman Rs. 400/-
- Some of them live in tents near the construction place, while some come from their residences.
- Wood, cement, sand, iron rods, bricks, stone chips, etc.
- About 100,000 bags of cement and 5000 trucks of bricks would be used for making the mall building.
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