Jindal take BPOs to the villages

Time of India, 18 April 2007 (R Raghavendra): In a unique initiative, the $4-billion Jindal Group, with support from the Karnataka government, is working to take BPOs rural.
After a year of testing a rural BPO model near Bellary, the Jindal Group is now planning to set up Dattahallis (data villages) across north Karnataka. This is the first instance in the state where the benefits of BPO will penetrate the rural.

Summary
· Plan is to set up Rural BPOs in the vicinity of the all Jindal steel, aluminum and energy plants in India.
· The Bellary Dattahalli, the brainchild of Sangita Jindal, Chairperson of JSW foundation will be expanded from 100 to 1000 seats over the next year.
· All women BPO will do basic data entry outsourced by Chennai based Lason India.
· Task include filling up medical prescriptions/insurance, entering details filled by customer in lucky coupons across various stores.
· State Government is upbeat about it and will support JSoft (software unit of Jindal) to replicate this in other locations. Tumkur and Kolar are on the radar.

Rural BPO

What is Rural BPO?

Comat (www.comat.com) has started a new initiative and a SBU called as Rural BPO,
It is the process of carrying out Back office support services using Tele Centers or Rural BPO Center setup by Comat Technologies across Karnataka. In brief, RBPO is
–BPO centers at rural kiosks
–Shared infrastructure
–Distributed employee pool
–ICT technology driven delivery process

Why Comat is doing this??
Comat's vision is to Energize Rural Economy by providing rural based services.