India BPO Promotion Scheme : [
IBPS ] V 2.0
This scheme was launched in 2015 . Here is how we can
upgrade to IBPS V 2.0
Recent government advertisement in news-paper re the
progress of this scheme , provides following details :
BPO CENTRES
ACROSS INDIA
* 27 States / UTs covered
* 103 Towns
covered
* 199 Allocated Units
* 87 Operational Units
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
* 53,300 Seats
Planned
* 33,692 Seats
Allocated
* 11,649 Jobs Created So Far
* 4,695
Women Employed
While congratulating Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji , on
this initiative , I urge him to consider the suggestion contained in my
following email to upgrade to IBPS V 2.0 :
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
In my yesterday's blog ,
* Slow
and Steady wins the Race - and in earlier blog
* If Mohamed
cannot Go to Mountain / 26 July 2015 ,
I had suggested allowing 1.3 million schools of India to lease out
their premises at night ( 6 pm to 6 am ) , for private parties to set up Call
Centers ( BPOs )
Also enabling them with 100 mbps Internet broadband
connections ( of course , FREE )
Idea was to reduce investment in
setting up of BPOs by " round-the-clock " utilization of , otherwise
idle assets
That logic could be extended to many
similar under-utilized public assets such as :
# 2,25,000 Gram Panchayat offices ( all
getting internet connection )
# 1,45,000 Post Offices ( also getting
internet connection under Payment Bank scheme )
# Lakhs of Government
offices ( Central / State / Municipal / PSUs etc )
# Lakhs of branches of
Public Sector Banks
But any attempt to share a public place by different
entities ( especially by Private Sector entities
) , at different times of day and night , is bound to raise many issues ,
including that of security / maintenance etc
Again , these " idle / under-utilized " capacities
will be available ONLY during
the nights , whereas a Call Centre needs to work around the clock !
But then , in today's totally
interconnected World , why should it be necessary for housing 10 / 20 / 50
persons in ONE place ,
under ONE roof , for
collaborating on execution of COMMON tasks
?
I am sure , in any given ONE square km of a small town , there
are 50 unemployed - and quite
possibly , GRADUATE - youngsters , who would be more than happy to " work from home "
They will be happy to set aside , in
their homes , a 5 feet by 5 feet space , as a " Home Work
Station "
Now , that subsidy of " Rs 1 lakh per seat " that the IT
Ministry has promised , is quite sufficient to set up a :
VIRTUAL
CALL CENTER ,
by connecting those 50 youngsters
through a , VPN ( VIRTUAL PRIVATE
NETWORK )
And since these youngsters are
working from their homes , they can be asked to work in 3 shifts of 8 hours each , providing
" Round the Clock "
service to customers !
If Uber-Ola are
adding 5,000 " Ride
Sharing Taxies " EVERY MONTH ,
by providing lease finance to the drivers or even buying the cars themselves and
giving to these drivers , then what is holding back the IT Ministry to follow
their suit and enable 5,000 youngsters to become " Self Employed " , each month ? or
even50,000 ?
Dear Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad-ji :
Why give a subsidy to a prospective
" OWNER " of a Call
Centre ?
Why not give it directly ( DBT / Direct Benefit Transfer ) to those
youngsters ?
Of course , this subsidy transfer
should take place , only AFTER ,
the Call Centre Owner , certifies that it has entered into a " Contractual Retainer-ship " with a
particular youngster
I would request you to consider the
following aspects of my suggestion :
* No new building premises
needed
* All technologies for a VPN, are existing / well proven /
reasonably priced / easy to
implement quickly
* MSPs / ISPs and your own Ministry are pushing internet
connections to every corner
of India
* Moving from " Ownership of
Assets " to " Assets as Service "
scenario ( ala Uber-Ola-
Airbnb etc )
* Moving from " Employment
" to " Self Employment "
with direct transfer of subsidy to
Beneficiary
* Has the potential to raise
India's share in global BPO business
from current 36 % to
50 % in
one year
* Can earn billions of dollars
in foreign exchange
* It would become a LIVING PROOF that DIGITAL INDIA can help our un-employed
graduates to earn a living
* Google /
Microsoft / Facebook , would be happy to help since " Next Billion " is their
topmost agenda
In an age where the " Fast and
Furious " are out to overtake the " Slow and Steady " , the meek are
unlikely to inherit the earth !
POST SCRIPT (
as on 12
April 2018 ) :
Over 280 million LED bulbs were distributed to
consumers in India by Energy Efficiency Services Limited ( EESL ) under Unnati
Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All ( UJALA ) as on December 19th 2017, and 524.3
million LED bulbs were sold by private players till October 2017.
That is 804 million LED lamps , each capable of streaming
internet , through Li
Fi technology ( at 1 Gb speed ) over the “ Work Stations “ of 80 million youth , if we implement “ Broadband
over Power Line “ technology !
I urge Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasadji to explore the possibility of my suggestion
12 April
2018
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