New Delhi : Millions of people have become unemployed in one stroke during the countrywide lockdown amid the Corona epidemic. The impact of this lockdown is most on states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal. Income is zero and government support is insufficient. In such a situation, he has to leave his home for employment again. However, the problem is that the business of industries in lockdown also came to a standstill, so many industries are not able to keep the same number of people as they used to before the lockdown. That is, there is a lack of employment opportunities. In this hour of crisis, many apps and websites have come forward to help migrants. These online platforms are acting as a link between job seekers (employees) and job seekers (employees).
Abhijeet Kumar, 19, of Gopalganj in Bihar got the support of one such website. He used to work in a mall in Patna which has been closed due to lockdown. Abhijeet faced a big crisis in the house when his mother became ill and his father’s job also went away. Then his friends told about Jobsgar. Abhijeet connected to this website and in July, he got a graphic artist job in a motorbike company just 7 km from his home. Abhijeet is getting 12 thousand rupees per month right now, more than the salary of mall in Patna. Due to being close to home, there is also a saving of four thousand rupees every month as room rent and additional expenses of food. Now he says that he lost his job in Patna, it was good.
Jobs employ people within 100 km of their homes. This is a platform to provide employment to blue collar and gray collar (skilled technicians) workers. Its founder Atul Pratap Singh says, ‘We felt that workers move to cities like Delhi and Mumbai. On the other hand, there is a huge demand of people in petrol pumps, insurance companies, banking operations, retail shops etc. which are not being met. He said that for the first time in Jobsgar, an employer from Kanpur offered a job of Rs 8,000. He needed a tire puncture assistant. This platform is built with people from UP, Bihar and Assam at the center. In the last 45 days, 10 thousand people have registered.
Let me tell you that ILO-ADB study said that 41 lakh Indian youth became unemployed due to Kovid-19 epidemic. His help has come up with a platform – Apna App which works like LinkedIn for blue collar workers (laborers and employee level jobs). Its founder Niramit Parikh says, “Blue collar workers often do not have any bio data, but they do have the skills.” Hence Apna App has given such people a chance to contact the employer directly by registering on the platform.
Apna App, launched in February, currently has 1.5 million registered users. This platform claims to have interviewed 1.2 million people in the last 30 days. There are 90 thousand different types of jobs available here from Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Bengaluru. Companies like Shadowfax, Delhivery, LIC, Byju’s, Unacademy and Shaadi.com (Shaadi.com) are giving jobs to registered people here. According to the web portal Teamlease, Blue collar hiring has increased 8 to 10 percent since Unlock 1.
On the other hand, actor Sonu Sood, who emerged as the Messiah of the poor in the post-Corona era, took the responsibility of sending migrants stranded in various states at their own expense and are now working on resolving to get them employment again. He launched the Overseas Employment Portal in July. There are currently three lakh job openings on this platform. Here companies such as L&T, Tata Motors, Welspun and Makino Auto are offering hiring offers. Employers and employees are in the final stage for 1.09 lakh jobs through the platform. At the same time, the process of 20 thousand interviews is going on. Overseas Employment also has its own app. The special thing is that this platform gives people new skills or more efficiency. For this, he has tied up with local institutions.
