Dipankar Roy, an unhappy subcontractor who installed windows of Lodha New Cuffe Parade, Wadala, and World One, Mumbai, talks about his bitter experiences on the construction site. He talks about unethical practices such as methodically poaching their workmen and not paying their dues, leading to very high turnover of subcontractors and labourers.

He opines that Lodha works through several layers or curtains of intermediaries, which effectively means that the dirty work gets done at a lower level. Lodha's hands never get dirty because of this mechanism. This is a Standard Operating Procedure in every Lodha Group site, and in case of other builders also. This is the modus operandi, says Dipankar Roy.

If there was a credit score for builders, Lodha Group and its various construction sites would probably score very poorly.

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0:00 Intro
3:00 Lodha's projects are endless chain of subcontracting
5:20 Poaching labourers in Lodha's subcontracting spiral
7:30 Lodha's SOP is a chain of exploitation, Modus operandi at Lodha New Cuffe Parade and World One
10:50 Lodha's management is inaccessible -- an insurmountable wall for contractors, similar to flat-buyers
12:50 Lodha takes a huge amount of bank guarantee from subcontractors
16:50 Lodha's systems are designed to squeeze money from subcontracting chain
18:30 If there were a credit score for builders, Lodha would be very low on it
19:00 Suppliers and service providers should be giving feedback on the internet
19:50 MSME is not applicable to service providers?
22:50 Builders like Lodha financially punish subcontractors and flat-buyers, but they cannot be punished
24:00 Quality Retention Money is generally to be written off by subcontractors
25:30 Flat buyers don't get to know about the sweat and blood shed by subcontractors on their flats

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