“Where will we get talent?”

When Zoho Corporation opened the first rural office in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, the founder of the most common questions SRIDHAR VEMBU was: “Where will we get talent?” Or “Who wants to work there?”

But the assumption that the rural areas of India lacks the capable professionals, he says, very shameful.

“Almost anywhere in India, over a diameter of 30 km, there are at least 0.5 to 2 million people – even in rural areas,” VEMBU posted on X.

With population densities exceeding 1,000 people per square kilometer in states such as the state of Uttar Pradesh, raw numbers cannot be denied. “A million rural population in India has about 15,000 children annually. Many children per year are in a 30 km diameter circle area. If we look closely, there is no shortage of raw talent anywhere in India. The challenge is to find and care for them.”

VEMBU argues that the development path in India should weaken decentralized opportunities. His slogan: “Talent is already – we just have to find it and care for it.” He believes that the key is by planting rural operations with a handful of experienced professionals who want to move – be it due to a feeling of goal, or simply to return home. “Then we grow around them,” he says, drawing an analogy of the crystallization process.

Sending many users deeply with this opinion. “In fact, people from small cities are more hungry because there are no chances … Our companies obsessed with the metro, which makes them crowded. The user added that they pledged to create a factory in his small hometown near a village, not only for cost efficiency, but” caring for people and creating jobs. “

The most prominent user is how the concerted talent gap is not a realistic fact, but rather a reflection of the limited vision. ) They added that the Zoho initiative to train and recruit the youth of the countryside is evidence of the hidden capabilities in the villages: “If we dream of leading India, we cannot leave our rural talent behind us.”