Portal for Domestic Help and Daily Wage Workers

Team - 19

Arnab Saha, Susan Mary Jose, Vikash Lohia & Jackson Bodra

Idea - 

In our venture, we plan to set up an enterprise that will act as a private employee exchange. All around the city there are demands for several maid-servants, drivers, helpers in shops, temporary gardeners etc. These requirements arise in the normal households when their regular house-hold help take a leave for a short period. Our enterprise will maintain a database/ record of persons who can work for these short periods as a temporary help in these households or shops. Our enterprise will enroll the names of the interested people in a database/record and will verify their background, if possible also police verification. This will allow us to charge a better price from the households who will pay directly to the enterprise and not personally to the person working for them. We will also provide help such as looking after of pets or tending the gardens if the families are out for a vacation. In Ahmedabad a NGO named " Saath" is already involved in the welfare of daily wage workers. Right from their registration looking after that they get their proper wages.

How are we going to move ahead

First of all for the venture, we will have a survey doing a demand study of Ahmedabad housing areas trying to find out the interest people have in employing from such an enterprise and how to increase the trust level of the people in such an enterprise. Thereafter we will also try to tie –up with NGOs like Asha which acts as a self-help group supporting the maid-servants.

Thereby later we will plan to scale up the enterprise for providing training and other soft-skills to the registered and verified employees.