Monster to launch rural job websites
New Delhi: Monster India, an online job portal, has announced that it will launch a rural jobsite rozgarduniya.com, which is in a pilot phase now, by early next year across nine states. The pilot phase has been started by Monster India in partnership with ITC e-Choupal in the second half of 2009, according to Economic Times.
"We are hopeful of completing the pilot phase by early 2010 and activate the entire e-Choupal network across nine states covering 40,000 villages", said Sanjay Modi, Managing Director for India, South Asia and Middle East, Monster.com
At present, the pilot phase is running across two locations - Hathras and Pilibhit in Western UP covering 610 e- Choupals and 3,095 villages. The objective of the pilot phase is to check the seeker and employer user-interface and respective functionalities, Modi said.
The e-Choupal, a rural digital infrastructure set up by the tobaccos-to-hospitality major ITC's agri business division, is one of the largest exporters of agricultural commodities from the country. Modi said that over the past two months, about 140 people were recruited from Hathras and Pilibhit centers by corporates.
On the revenue model, he said in the current model job seeking services are free. "The prospective employers would be paying us on a subscription-based model," he added. Rozgarduniya.com is available in English and Hindi only, Modi added that he plans to make it available in other leading languages too.
Monster.com India has also tied up with Dish TV to offer jobs on television - first of its kind in the country.
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