Mysorean

India is going to become a developed country by 2020. Major reason: Low cost, very efficient, human resource.

When you think of the the major reason that’s stated, you are probably thinking of sectors like IT, BPO, etc. That’s definitely the first few sectors to make use of the benefit of the low cost, efficient, human resource. There are many more areas where we can take this advantage to and help in a more distributed development. By distributed development I mean to say, that all the second-rung cities and villages also develop.

There is a lot of unskilled labour in our country. Unfortunately they are not only unskilled, they are underpaid (I aint talking of this low cost!), unseen and unheard of. Talking about labourers who work in building sites, there is a certain system that’s been in place wherein these people meet up at common points in a city and the contractors come and pick them up and take them to the site where they go to work on a daily basis. These labourers more often than not stay in nearby villages.

There is a requirement in the cities for these labourers and hence they find that by making their way to the cities they will be able to earn their living. But there are many more such labourers who just have one problem – not able to reach their potential customers. We talk about highly responsive and cost-effective supply chains that various companies boast of. Is there anyway that we can connect these people up with their potential market?

Yes. Let’s look at how we can do it. Every village definitely has a panchayat/ post office/ or a PCO atleast. We choose one of these for what I call Local Stations (LS) But before going into the village level, we need to create a website that’s functionally like any of the jobsites. Just that the job listing is going to be profession-wise (Carpenters, plumbers, gardeners, cooks, etc) and not company-wise (HLL, Asian Paints etc) as it is right now. Lets discuss the structure of the website later. Getting back to the idea.

We get all the people (who want to get employed) to register at their respective nearest LS’s. Their names go into a central database and automatically gets listed on the available skillsets of the website. Lets call the website a Central Station (CS). At the other end, we need people to know that these people with these skillsets are available. For that we need to do some publicity work for the website.

The revenue, initially, will come from both ends. Meaning that people who register for employment, on getting a succesful employment call (I am clueless on how I am going to track that) or even on registration itself (easier, but might have to compromise on the numbers) will pay up to the website. The people who hire, undoubtedly, will pay for utilising the services of the website. Advertisers, etc come into the picture later!

Yeah. I agree that I am not very clear on how it’s all going to look finally. Before getting into the nitty-gritty issues I am thinking aloud to decide on it’s necessity. And once I am convinced of its necessity, we can go into the commercial and technical feasibility.

There are a few more ideas. I shall blog them one by one gradually. Wear your thinking hats and let’s see how we can build our country into a better one using the available tools of technology!

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