Daily wage labourers and construction workers wait to get hired on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
India's economy, once one of the fastest-growing in the world, is braking in a blow to the labour-intensive manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Indian daily wage labourers and construction workers jostle as a man, in red shirt, tries to hire them, on the outskirts of New Delhi. Confidence in the Indian economy is giving way to uncertainty as growth in the labour-intensive manufacturing sector has come to a near standstill, braking to 0.6 percent in the last quarter from 12.1 percent in the same period a year earlier. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Daily wage labourers and construction workers wait in anticipation to get hired on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Workers prepare packing of clutch buttons at an auto component manufacturing factory on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A man drives a battery-operated rickshaw through a slum as unfinished residential housing projects are seen in the background in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. Growth slipped to 5 percent in the April-June quarter, the slowest pace in six years, and many economists believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's signature economic policies are at least partly to blame. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A roadside vegetable seller waits for customers in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A roadside fruit seller waits for customers as vehicles drive past in Noida. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)