India has become a start-up hub in recent years. Many start-ups are hitting as high as some MNCs. Among many popular urban start-ups, some are impacting rural areas and making difference by choosing a totally different target group. Such start-ups are improving the lives of people living in rural areas.
Khedut-Pay has listed down some change-makers who are impacting rural development.
1. Rozgar Dhaba (Employment)
start-up founded by Vinod Pandey
Started in 2018.
Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district. Rozgar Dhaba is a concept of a tea-stall with providing different vacancies listed by employers. In India, most of the tea-stalls are crowded most of the time as tea is a highly consumed drink by Indians. Rozgar Dhaba sells tea and jobs, too. Customers get to know new vacancies and employers get the right talent.
Rozgar Dhaba’s revenue comes from its sales and advertisements of jobseekers or employers. Founder Vinod has hosted 20 job fairs to make employment an easy process in villages. Moreover, he is planning to organize workshops to attract women.
2. Maatritva (Healthcare)
Nasik-based start-up
Founded by Pritish Agarwal, Abhishek Verma, and Garima Dosar
Started in April 2017.
Maatritva works in the healthcare sector by providing a unique mobile health platform to empower Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM), gynecologists and medical officers and helps in screening, identifying and tracking of high risk pregnant women.
Team works to deliver babies without any trouble and complications at a rural level.
3. Gaatha (Indian Traditional Handicrafts)
Founded by Sumiran Pandey, Shivani Dhar, and Himanshu Khar
In year august, 2013.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Gaatha is an e-commerce for Indian handicrafts like clothes, jewelry, paintings, and stationery, crafted by artisans of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Kashmir. The raw material used by gaatha is waste like bamboo, wood, leather, fibre, and urban waste!
With price-range from 250 to 10,000 this start-up receives around 500 orders per month. The same start-up received funding from the Central Government in 2009 worth 10 crore rupees.
4. Prosoc
PROducts for SOCiety (Education)
Founded in 2015 by IIT Kanpur alumnus Eshan Sadasivan
PROSOC aims to design and develop innovative social products and services of social importance in different sectors like education, livelihood, agriculture, healthcare, etc. Currently, the startup offers DESKIT, a faculty bag that has attached a study table in it. With the assistance of DESKIT, students can sit during a good posture while studying and may write comfortably.
This study table is helpful for the right body posture of school going poor children who do not have proper facilities to arrange benches.
Such start-ups are paving the way for rural youth and changing the way of business by not choosing mainstream business fields and shaping modern India.
