Monday, January 10, 2011

Rural India Growing

The rural India no longer needs to migrate to the cities to gain employment. New sectors like telecom, microfinance, rural BPOs, etc. are providing them with lucrative opportunities in their own home towns. In earlier days big cities like Delhi and Mumbai were the hot destinations for the youths of the rural world, especially for the educated ones. However, very few of them did well. Higher cost of living ate into their incomes leading to lower standards of living and almost negligible savings.

With the new wave of rural BPOs and micro financing, companies in these sectors are now actively seeking people in the smaller towns. Even telecom companies are providing opportunities to the rural community in the form of managing and maintaining their numerous telecom towers. If this continues, then soon the migration from rural to urban India would stop. And the economic divide between the two would start to even out.

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