UIET alumni prepare online portal for employment of labourers

“Their profile will have their name, contact number and the skill they are trained in. People can access the portal and scroll through the names to select the workers, as per their requirement, and can contact them without any delay,” said Kunal Kumar, a software engineer at Infosys, and one out of the seven members who started the group.

While, Kumar works in Infosys, Chandigarh, Ankit Narang and Lokesh Arora are Java experts at Quark, Mohali, Moksh Goyal works at SBI, Chandigarh, and Priya Ranjan, Ankur, and Sumit are students of UIET. The group which was formed two years ago with just seven members, who were batchmates in UIET, now boasts of a strength of around 80 members largely comprising students and professionals from various institutes and companies.

At present, there are around 26 students from UIET, 3 students from Panjab University Centre for Social Work, few from University Business School (UBS), among others.

“We visit various institutes and colleges and hold recruitment drives, wherein we invite students to be part of our group activities. Each member is assigned a task, somebody will be involved in designing, the other will take care of the management, strategy, marketing, while the students are mostly given codes to draft modules for the software,”said Kumar.

The portal will be officially launched by the team by the end of this month, before which the members will visit different pockets of the city with a large labour population to collect data. The places as shortlisted by the team includes, Sector 56, Sector 20, Labour Chowk, Dhanas, Kharar and Khuda Lahora.