2011
Rural BPOs sow seeds of change
Financial Express - Dec 31, 2011
In a spartan building off a highway that leads to Bangalore 80 km away, a batch of youngsters is clattering away on their keyboards, rendering scanned copies of several thousand handwritten bills into digital data. Every now and then, the supervisor records the names of the fastest workers on a blackboard…..read more
The dynamics of social entrepreneurship
The Smart CEO - Dec 15, 2011
As more and more social enterprises crop up with the intention of impacting the society, their long-term sustainability depends on constantly innovating their business model to a fluctuating rural market…..read more
RuralShores to set up 100 BPO centers in rural areas
Sourcing Line.com - Dec 14, 2011
RuralShores Business Process Outsourcing, a domestic BPO firm in India which completed three years of existence recently, is expecting to set up as many as 100 rural BPO centers across the country and generate 10,000 new employments during the subsequent next three years.Currently, RuralShores has established 10 rural BPO centers in seven Indian states, counting Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Presently, as many as 1,000 employees are working in these 10 rural BPO centers…..read more
IT Giants Moving Into Rural BPOs
Silicon India - Dec 13, 2011
Bangalore: Finding a job after studies was a nightmare for many young people in rural areas. But the scenario has taken a quick u-turn. Big IT giants are moving towards rural areas to set BPOs. Although there have been a few number of Rural BPOs setup so far, it is encouraging other companies to make the move for various reasons.…..read more
Firms take jobs to Rural India
India Today - Dec 13, 2011
The rural job scene is undergoing radical transformation with organized players taking jobs into villages and helping rural youth find gainful employment…..read more
Many big IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, Genpact moving into rural BPOs
Economic Times - Dec 13, 2011
BANGALORE: Not being able to find work after studies is not the worst nightmare for India's rural youth: most of them have experienced it. But when 21-year-old Rajagopal finished his BCom in Anatapur, Andhra Pradesh, he didn't give up hopes of finding a full-time job and go back to farming like his elder brothers.
Without a fixed income, he wasn't going to be able to support his family or pay back his education loan. That's when he contacted Rural Shores…..read more
RuralShores employs over 1,000 rural youth
Cybermedia India Online Limited - Dec 12, 2011
MUMBAI, INDIA: RuralShores, which assimilates rural India into the knowledge economy through the creation of sustainable livelihood and entrepreneurial opportunities for rural youth, has celebrated crossing the mark of employment to 1000 rural youth by hosting an event at its first centre at Bagepalli, Karnataka…..read more
RuralShores to open 100 rural BPOs
Financial Chronicle - Dec 12, 2011
RuralShores Business Process Outsourcing (BP-O) expects to have 100 rural BPO centres employing 10,000 employees in the next three years.
RuralShores has now set up 10 rural centres across seven states including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, UP, MP, Rajasthan and Gujarat. It has a total headcount of 1000 across these 10 centres…..read more
RuralShores expects to break-even in 12 months
Business Standard - Dec 12, 2011
RuralShores Business Services, a provider of business process outsourcing services from rural areas, is planning to set up 100 rural centres which would provide employment to about 10,000 people in the next three years. The Bangalore-based company where housing finance company HDFC is one of the investors with a 26 per cent stake also said it was expecting to break-even in next 12 months…..read more
Time now for rural BPOs: Deepak Parekh
Times of India - Dec 11, 2011
Bagepalli (Kolar): The cost arbitrage factor is fast diminishing for the Indian BPO sector as competition from China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines etc getting severe. At this juncture, it is critical for the country to focus on rural BPOs to cash in on the cost factor and talent availability, said Deepak Parekh, chairman HDFC…..read more
Firms should recruit from rural areas also, says Moily
Business Standard- Dec 11, 2011
Business houses should change their urban-centric attitude and recruit more people from rural areas, minister of corporate affairs M Veerappa Moily said today.Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a function organised by RuralShores Business Services, which provides BPO services from rural centres, Moily said some companies have found the services of rural youths error-free. “The employers today have an urban-centric attitude and they need to change this. Youths from rural areas, despite having all required jobs skills, lag behind their counterparts in urban areas because of lack of soft skill,” he said…..read more
A novel venture turns three
The Hindu- Dec 11, 2011
In an unlikely scene, tucked away off the national highway at Bagepalli in Chickballapur district, nearly 100 rural youth vigorously key in data into computers. Less than three years ago, most of them had cleared SSLC or PUC, and were looking at the possible avenues of employment in their villages…..read more
Providing jobs to rural folks, RuralShores is going strong
DNA India- Dec 11, 2011
Just three years after its inception, RuralShores celebrated another landmark—crossing the 1,000 rural employees mark, at Bagepalli on Saturday…..read more
RuralShores in Growth Mode Celebrates Employing Over 1,000 Rural Youth
Business Wire- Dec 10, 2011
RuralShores celebrated crossing the threshold of providing employment to one thousand rural youth by hosting an event at its first centre at Bagepalli, Karnataka (approximately 100 kms from Bangalore). The theme of the event was `Illuminating a Thousand Rural Families'. The function was presided by Honourable Union Corporate Affairs Minister, Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Mr. Deepak Parekh, Chairman HDFC Limited and Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Chairman Infosys…..read more
IT majors are exploring rural BPOs as alternative
Deccan Herald - Dec 6, 2011
The profession has seldom been considered at par with mainstream IT jobs. However, times have changed, with even premier IT body Nasscom saying that the BPO sector has created around 10 lakh jobs in the country…..read more
Inside a rural Indian call centre - outsourcing builds a new life in the country
Silicon.com - Oct 28, 2011
Indian IT services firms are looking outside the big cities to set up their new operations…..read more
BPO Going the Rural Way!
Voice and Data - Oct 21, 2011
From Bihar to Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, we now have enough examples of rural outsourcing initiatives run by different companies and authorities in India.…..read more
Karnataka plans to revise rural BPO policy
Business Standard - Oct 05, 2011
The Karnataka government is revising its policy on setting up rural business process outsourcing (BPO) in the state with the intention to create more jobs and nurture entrepreneurship…..read more
Rural Shores BPO looks for aid from World Bank
www.mydigitalfc.com - Oct 02, 2010
Rural Shores, formed to provide jobs to youth in rural areas, is seeking financial assistance from World Bank for ramping up its rural BPO facilities.…..read more
Transformation Call Rings in Sonari
The Times of India - Sep 26, 2011
BAGEPALLI, India — Under harsh fluorescent lights, dozens of heads bend over keyboards, the clattering unison of earnest typing filling the room. Monitors flicker with insurance forms, time sheets and customer service e-mail messages, tasks from far away, sent to this corner of India to be processed on the cheap…..read more
Villages to solve the mobile issues of the urban subscribers(Translated)
Hindustan - Sep 25, 2011
Sitapur, India —The day is not far when the village youth would solve the issues of the urban telecom subscribers…(Translated)..read the original article
Rural youth get an opportunity to work at the BPO (Translated)
Hindustan - Sep 24, 2011
Sitapur, India —The rural BPO in Sonari has given the youth in the surrounding villages a new dream to look forward to…(Translated)..read the original article
Lok Capital invests $3 million in rural BPO
Economic Times - Sep 16, 2011
BANGALORE: Lok Capital venture fund on Thursday said it has invested $3 million in RuralShores Business Services Ltd, a rural business process outsourcing (BPO) firm …..read more
BPO industry is going to hinterlands
www.equitymaster.com - Sep 14, 2011
"Computer and English" are still status symbols in rural India. "Women going to office" is still a remote concept there. But things are changing in some of the villages in India. Information Technology (IT), which has been an integral part of the Indian growth story in recent times, is now changing the face of the hinterlands of the country…..read more
Homefires have techies eyeing new entrepreneurial ventures
Deccan Chronicle - Jul 03, 2011
The Indian BPO Industry is fast losing its edge to low cost countries like Phillipines, China and Vietnam thanks in part to rising costs in Indian Cities. But that edge can still be maintained in Rural BPO model, says Murali Vullaganti, CEO RuralShores…..read more
The BPO moved under a tree
Mid Day - Jul 3, 2011
With urban real estate prices spiralling out of control and off-the-charts attrition rates, India is seeing a new BPO revolution…..read more
India’s Largest Rural BPO’s ambitious plan to create “hubs” in every rural district
Tech Sangam - Jun 23, 2011
Editor's Note: Yesterday I drove up to Whitefield to meet Murali Vullaganti, co-founder and CEO of India's largest rural BPO, Rural Shores. What I heard must have excited me because I'm publishing this post with a mere 1-day gestation period - a record for this fledgling blog – Vishy
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Job Creation Through Building the Field of Impact Sourcing
Monitor Group - Jun 2011
RuralShores currently has eight IS centers across India, all located in villages with populations of less than 20,000 and all at least three hours’ drive from cities. By paying upwards of $70 per month, RuralShores offers employment that is twice as lucrative as local alternatives…..read more
Setting sail for greener shores – The Story of a rural BPO
NASSCOM Emerge Forum - Apr 25, 2011
For 30 year old Vadivakarasi, the Rural Shores BPO was her first job. She was hesitant, unsure of stepping into un-chartered waters, but very eager to learn more. Now, a year later, this former housewife has picked up enough confidence to start an undergraduate BBA correspondence course…..read more
From Gurgaon to har-gaon
Business Standard - Feb 26, 2011
Offshoring large data projects to rural areas can work wonders for the inclusive growth agenda.....read more
Indian Rural Call Center transforms Service Delivery
www.jabra.com - 2011
Leading Indian rural Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider RuralShores delivers voice and transaction processing services out of its rural operations.....read more
2010
IT jobs trickling down to rural India
Irish Times - Oct 10, 2010
A call centre company called Rural Shores is trying to bring the two Indias a little closer together.....read more
It's raining BPO jobs for youth here
The Hindu - Sep 16, 2010
Job opportunities in business process outsourcing (BPO) are virtually knocking on the doors of the rural youth of the backward Chickballapur district.....read more
Indian outsourcing firms find greener pastures
Los Angeles Times - Jun 21, 2010
As the call center business matures in India, companies are setting up offices in rural areas, with lower costs and, possibly, fewer homesick employees.....read more
RuralShores:The BPO New Wave – Seminar Series
IIMB – EPGP - Jun 10, 2010
Ruralshores, a BPO outsourcing company, is unique for its value proposition of low cost outsourcing for its clients and employment opportunities to rural youth Founded by a group of passionate professionals and funded to a certain extent by HDFC Bank and Lokcapital LLC UK, Ruralshores now aspires to expand to 500 centres in 7 years.....read more
India's Top ITES and BPO Companies 2010
Dun and Bradstreet - 2010
RuralShores listed as one of India's Top ITes and BPO companies in India - A report by D&B, India.....read more
RuralShores – Corporate Social Responsibility – Innovative Indian Startup – Rural BPO
Money Mint - Feb 19, 2010
Have you ever heard of the term CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility. A new dimension of entrepreneurship, extending the IT industry to rural populace of India. RuralShores is once such company and won the runner up award for Best Innovative Startup by NASSCOM recently.....read more
Lok Capital invests in RuralShores Business Services Pvt Ltd.
Lok Capital Press Release - Feb 05, 2010
Lok Capital LLC, a venture fund focused on the microfinance sector in India, announces an investment of INR 1 crore in Rural Shores Business Services Pvt Ltd.....read more
2009
Outsourcing en ny chans för landsbygden
Sydsvenskan (Swedish Daily) - Dec 05, 2009
Världen. Outsourcingen har spridit sig från storstäderna till den indiska landsbygden. Utanför Bagepalli delar åttio personer på en 2 Mbit-uppkoppling och affärsgäster får bo på byns ashram.....read more
Outsourcing is a new opportunity for rural areas
Sydsvenskan (Swedish Daily) - English Version - Dec 05, 2009
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Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom
New York Times - Nov 12, 2009
BAGEPALLI, India — Under harsh fluorescent lights, dozens of heads bend over keyboards, the clattering unison of earnest typing filling the room. Monitors flicker with insurance forms, time sheets and customer service e-mail messages, tasks from far away, sent to this corner of India.....read more
When Bangalore outsources to Bagepalli
Indian Express - Oct 25, 2009
Off a desolate stretch of National Highway 7, two-and-a-half hours from Bangalore, outside a small town called Bagepalli stands one of India’s earliest rural back office centres.....read more
Business ventures thrive in rural India
BBC News - Sep 02, 2009
At first sight there is little to set apart the sleepy village of Bagepally. It is as non-descript as any other small village you might find in southern India. But it lies barely 100km (62 miles) from India's bustling economic powerhouse of Bangalore and the city's business acumen has clearly rubbed off on Bagepally.....read more
BPO manned by Rural Youth
Web Duniya - Jul 26, 2009
Approximately 100 Kms from Bangalore is a village called Bagepalli which is no different from any other village except that it is one of the few villages that can boast of a BPO center managed by the Rural youth of the village.....read more
Rural BPO centres provide a ray of hope for smaller towns
Live Mint / Wall Street Journal - Jun 18, 2009
These new centres are offering jobs to young people who would have been forced otherwise to migrate to big cities.....read more
HDFC Picksup 26% equity in RuralShores
Economic Times - Jun 16, 2009
The company is looking at setting up 80-100 seater centers in towns with populations of 10,000-15,000. Consolidating the belief that rural sector is the new alternative market, India’s largest home finance company, Housing and Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), has picked up a 26% stake in Bangalore based rural BPO firm, RuralShores, reports The Economic Times. The start up was floated by 6 technocrats last year.....read more
How to convert villages into BPO hubs
Economic Times - Jun 13, 2009
Inclusive IT development requires a business model linking rural skill development with commercial outsourcing. Business process outsourcing (BPO) has long been done by English-speaking youngsters out of major cities for global customers.....read more
Infosys, Wipro focus more on outsourcing in rural India
Economic Times - Jun 11, 2009
Indian tech majors Infosys Technologies and Wipro are set to enter the booming domestic back-office service market, multiplying by more than one-third every year, and join a tech revolution happening in rural India......read more
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