Ask HN: How to provide employment to educated poor in India?
Dear HN Readers,

Short Version: There are lot of educated* unemployed people whose family income is less than 20$ per month (Below Poverty Line ). They can be trained to do some manual work. What can I do to provide them good employment?

Long Version:

My Technical Background (During College) :
1. I've finished by Bachelors and Masters in Electronics & Computer Science from the most reputed college of India called Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), 2 years ago.

2. During my college days, I've participated and won few programming competitions.I'm a former Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student.

3.I'm a reasonably good developer, with hands on experience in Web Development (PHP & Python), upto .NET 3.5 application development, Systems Programming, Reverse Engineering & Penetration Testing.

4. By the end of my studies, I've got 3 Job offers in three different companies for 3 different profiles Web Developer, Software Engineer & Security Researcher. I didn't take any of them because I didn't want to go for job.

5. Teaching has been my passion since my childhood. I've taught (as a hobby) high school Math, Physics & Chemistry for 5 years during my college.

What I've been doing for past 2 years (after College)?:

Because of my teaching experience, I was very much unhappy and disappointed with the kind of education students getting in school in spite of paying very high tuition fee. I felt bad for those poor people who couldn't actually afford going to those schools yet working day and night just to give their children good education. So, I joined a very reputed High School as a teacher to understand things from inside of the school. Simultaneously I was running a private institute of my own with a team, with the aim to give best possible education. The institute is purely non-profit and is running with the concept of "Pay what ever you can". After gaining insights for 1 year, I quit school. I started concentrating only on my institute. Things are running smooth on this end.

Entering the world of Below Poverty Line candidates:

I was in need of two typists in my institute. Some social workers have sent about 20 candidates for this job. All of them are BPL candidates. Most of them are either doing college or finished their college and have a degree. After college they also did some computer training (3months - 36months) in some local private/govt computer training institutes. I've interviewed and realized to what extent people are being deceived in the name of computer training. These private institute have collected huge fee (huge for candidates) and didn't teach them anything. People don't know how to copy paste something. But the institutes claim that they have taught desktop publishing, Microsoft Office, Programming (C, C++, Java, .Net ..). I interviewed each candidate for more than an hour. During the interview I've trained each candidate on a small topic for 10-15min and asked them to do tasks. They were doing things well. They are not idiots. Big National companies hire the very best of hundreds of such people and make them work for 9 hours a day and 26 days a month and pay them $40-$100/month. That is literally exploitation or stupidity at its peak I must say. With proper training they can be efficiently used and paid better. As per my requirement I've hired just two of them. These two have been working with us for 2 months now. They've shown lot of improvement. Employment can be provided not just to very best of these but for all of them.

I'm not saying they are very intelligent. I'm just saying they are not idiots. The only reason for they not being intelligent as I feel is lack of proper education. I feel guilty of hiring just 2 people. As the institute I'm running itself is non-profit (I myself didn't take any salary in past 2years), I cannot pay them much and I cannot hire more of them.

There are hundreds of them. Thy work very hard. They can do manual (that doesn't include _much_ logic) work efficiently. I'll train them to be efficient. I'm in need of ideas for a venture with which we can make money and provide employment and good pay to these people.