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Empowering rural folks with high tech jobs - SAJAL’S INFO-SOLUTION
Our rural India does have a huge talent pool to be groomed to make it achieve global strides. And, here is a man who made this a reality by generating high tech employees in the rural arena. Reign Over Me download
Kajal Goswami started Sajal’s Info Solution Pvt Ltd., at his native town of Malda near Kalkota. The self funded 200 seat BPO by 35 year old Kajal provides rural folks a high tech job which caters to clients from USA, UK, Australia and India. A 65 people strong team manages the UK and USA processes and their BPO has enough provision to accommodate another 200.
The absence of qualified work force in the rural area does pose a big challenge for Kajal. The poor knowledge of rural folks does get its polish for a shine with an expert team from Kolkota inculcating necessary knowledge for the employees to get them fit for this job. Boys and girls working during night is a new phenomenon in this locality. Kajal feels rubbed with salt when the locals criticize the hard working BPO people with nasty comments synonymising the nights shift job with illegal work. Even political parties raise their eye brows.
Though he makes efforts for his ark to be guided towards a distant light house, his forward sailing ark got struck with one of his clients from Bhutan making a hide and seek game with a whopping Rs.48 Lacs. Kajal is on the mouth of a giant squid, and fears that his venture could sink down the sea if not for his coffers to realize the huge sum of money. Even though Indian embassy did take efforts, Kajal is yet to see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. He express to Startupstory that he is planning for going into hunger strike till death with his family. Little respite in his life now of getting an offer as General Manager in Vishnu Assets group, which makes foray in software business.
His financial situation is so bad that he is neither able to pay his employees nor renew the website of his company. But rural Indians have their own human touch. 28 of his employees are still sticking to his company for the past some months without any salary but with their only goal to work and make the company come back to full steam. Once he tried to sell off his personal assets to pay them, but there was a stiff opposition and they swore not to take a single rupee until the company regains back into good health. Is this the power of rural India!!
Wishing him success in his business and I salute the efforts of him and his employees to make their hard work realise its goal in the near future.
Address:Sajal’s Info-Solution Pvt Ltd Bachamari, Palpara Malda, West Bengal, India 732142 Mobile: +91 9733213073, 9832048292 Contact:goswami.kajal@gmail.com
Network: bpo-ceo.ning.com/profile/KAJALGOSWAMI
Website: www.infosolution.co.in (now it is not working since he is not in a position to renew it) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. movie download
Muziboo.com: Get An Audience
Their passion for creating something from scratch made this young couple from Banglore to do a part-time weekend project to provide a Web 2.0 platform for sharing and discussing music. This was apart from their full-time work at a startup company involved in embedded solutions, where he was in Engineering team and she in the HR team. But the company scraps down the product due to funding issues. On the other side their hobby project had been gaining steam with ever increasing number of users. This gave them the impetus to make their hobby into a full time venture.
The key idea of their project is not just promoting music, but to provide a place to add fun in the process of creating, exchanging and discussing music. In a true Web 2.0 style, users can upload their audio and share with others for free. Muziboo.com started during August 2007, has a healthy mix of people right from sound engineers & short film makers to composers & label owners and plays as a ‘one stop huddle’ for anybody with aspirations for music. The users showcase and make their work better with the help of their peers adding constructive criticism similar to the commenting system for a blog article in a Web 2.0 style.
The self funded Banglore based company has no employees. Nithya takes care of marketing while her husband Prateek does the coding and there are no official designations yet. It is a classic example of a bootstrapped venture. On their marketing strategy, Nithya tells “Customer service is marketing”, I hope this dedication will keep their brand to be well known in the days to come.
In response to their users’ feedback, they have introduced added benefits like high bitrate streaming, private sharing, unlimited photo uploads etc., for a premium professional package of $25 per year. With half a million page views per month, they are scaling the absolute size of Muziboo.com to hit sustainability with their model.
The site is quite interactive and there is a 24 Hour internet radio which plays songs prepared by its members. There are different bands and you too can create your own band at the website.
Email: contact@muziboo.com
Blog:muziboo.com/blog
Nithya blogs at nithyadayal.com/blog and Prateek blogs at prateekdayal.net/blog
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