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RojMitra, Mapping India's Workforce
Indian village homes, green fields and a textile factory connected by a village road

RojMitra by EarlyJobs

A worker spends ten years building a skill. The next employer never knows.

RojMitra is building a village-level workforce intelligence infrastructure that helps make every worker's skills, experience, availability and work history visible.

Village-first · Consent-based · Built by EarlyJobs

Illustrative worker profile

Name

Ramesh Kumar

Home village
Gaya, Bihar
Industry experience
Knitwear manufacturing
Work location
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu
Experience
10 years
Current status
Returned home
Availability
Demonstration status

Illustrative profile – not a real worker record

Village

Village-first Intelligence

Workforce information organised from the village level upward to Gram Panchayat, block, district, state and India.

  • Village
  • Block
  • District
  • India

Experience

Experience Intelligence

Past roles, industries, work locations, experience and skills – captured in a record designed to travel with the worker.

  • Roles
  • Industries
  • Tenure
  • Skills

Partner network

Village Workforce Mitra

A trusted local partner who helps workers create and maintain their experience records with their consent.

Industries

Where the work is

  • Manufacturing
  • Garments
  • Textile
  • Construction
  • Logistics
  • Retail

Potential channels

Everyvillageworkerseen,everyskillrecorded,everyemployerconnected.

The talent is already nearby. It just isn't visible.

Architecture

The village is the unit. Everything else is a view.

Where we start

Where workers actually live

Most workforce information is presented at the state or district level. RojMitra is designed to start at the village, where workers live and communities understand local employment patterns.

Workforce information can then be organised upward, creating connected views at Gram Panchayat, block, district, state and national levels.

  • Village

    The unit. Everything else is a view.

  • Gram Panchayat

    The next view up from the village.

  • Block

    Then district, state and India.

One record

Six levels of insight

Village → Gram Panchayat → Block → District → State → India. The same data, whether you are hiring for a plant or planning for a district.

  1. 01

    Village

  2. 02

    Gram Panchayat

  3. 03

    Block

  4. 04

    District

  5. 05

    State

  6. 06

    India

The problem

India's workforce is everywhere. The intelligence about it is not.

A village worker standing at the doorway of his home with paddy fields behind him

Worker profile

Ramesh Kumar · Gaya, Bihar

  • 10 yrs experience
  • Knitwear manufacturing, Tiruppur
  • Returned home · Available

Millions of skilled workers live in villages across India. They travel to different cities and states for employment, learn new skills, work across industries and return home with years of valuable experience.

Yet much of this experience remains unrecorded and difficult for employers to discover.

Employers struggle to identify suitable nearby workers. Workers struggle to make their experience visible beyond their immediate networks. Institutions and planners often lack granular, continuously updated workforce information.

India's workforce is distributed. Its intelligence remains fragmented.

RojMitra is being built to bridge this gap.

The problem

Employers guess. Workers go unseen.

A supervisor with a clipboard at a factory gate looking down an empty road

Employers

No visibility, no way to reach them

Keep hunting for fresh, nearby talent with no visibility into who is around and no way to reach them.

A skilled welder sitting outside his village home with his welding mask and tools

Workers

Years of skill stay invisible

Years of skill and experience stay invisible beyond the village or the contractor they know.

Two district planners studying a printed district map on an office table

Planners

Averages, not village evidence

Decide on district averages, not village-level evidence.

What public data already shows

Indians are internal migrants, most moving for work
45 crore+

Census of India, 2011

of India's workforce is in informal employment, largely unrecorded
~90%

PLFS, MoSPI

Indians live in rural areas, far from where hiring data is gathered
2 in 3

Census of India, 2011

The talent is already nearby. It just isn't visible.

Experience

Years of experience shouldn't end at the village boundary.

A worker's professional journey does not end when they leave a factory, change cities or return to their village.

A stitching operator in Surat. A tiling mason on a Bengaluru construction site. A machine operator in a Kerala manufacturing unit.

Each workplace adds experience, skills and knowledge.

But when workers move, their employment history often remains scattered across contractors, employers and locations.

RojMitra aims to create a connected workforce experience record that captures what workers have done, where they have worked, how long they have worked and what skills they have acquired.

When the record stops

  • Experience goes unrecorded once a worker goes home
  • The next employer starts from zero
  • A skill learned over years never leaves the last workplace
  • Hiring searches for new talent a few kilometres away

A record that travels

Verified
  • Past roles, industries, places and years, in the worker's own words
  • Experience checked, not just claimed
  • Match returning and local workers to roles that fit what they have already done
  • A verified work history that travels with them

How it works

From discovery to a worker at work.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Identify workers and workforce clusters at the village level.

    Live
  2. 02

    Registration

    Create consent-based worker profiles and capture past employment history.

    Live
  3. 03

    Verification

    Check relevant experience, skills and employment information using appropriate verification methods.

    Live
  4. 04

    Intelligence mapping

    Organise workforce information by occupation, skill, experience and geography.

    Live
  5. 05

    Employer discovery

    Enable employers to identify suitable local and returning workers using relevant workforce information.

    Live
  6. 06

    Hiring execution

    Connect suitable workers to employment opportunities through the EarlyJobs recruitment network.

    Live

What we do

Seven layers of workforce intelligence, starting with what workers already know.

A group of village workers — a mason, a tailor and a machine operator — in a village lane with paddy fields behind them

Experience intelligence

What a worker has done, where they have worked, for how long and what they have learned. A connected employment history designed to travel with them.

A young woman in her village lane holding up a phone showing her work profile

Worker intelligence

Consent-based worker profiles organised by location, occupation and employment history.

A woman stitching fabric at a sewing machine in a Surat textile unit

Skills intelligence

Understand the skills workers possess, their experience levels and the occupations they can perform.

A local partner showing a village worker his profile on a phone under a banyan tree

Availability intelligence

Understand who may be available, from when and for how long, based on updated worker information.

Workers with bags walking along a village railway platform as a train arrives

Migration intelligence

Understand where workers move for employment, which industries they work in and when they return.

A daily-wage worker's hands counting rupee notes at a village tea stall
In build

Wage intelligence

Understand wage expectations, prevailing compensation patterns and differences across locations and occupations.

A plant manager talking with a machine operator on a factory floor
In build

Employer demand intelligence

Map employer requirements by geography, industry, occupation and workforce demand.

Partner network

Every village needs a trusted local face.

Workers

RojMitra gives every village worker a verified record of what they can do. Worker information is collected with the worker's consent.

  • Past roles, industries, places and years
  • Experience checked, not just claimed
  • A verified work history that travels with them
A young woman in her village lane holding up a phone showing her work profile

Workers

Trust

Workforce intelligence with consent.

Worker information is collected with the worker's consent. We design our data practices around the principle that data should open doors for the worker, not just be sold on. We are building responsible practices into the platform from the start.

Consent

Worker information is collected with the worker's consent, through local partners called Village Workforce Mitras.

Open doors

Data should open doors for the worker, not just be sold on.

Responsible practice

Responsible practices are being built into the platform from the start. Read Privacy and Terms for details.

Migration

Workers move. Their experience moves with them, and the data should too.

A young woman stitching a t-shirt at a sewing line in a Tiruppur knitwear unit
01Illustrative

Knitwear unit, Tiruppur

Bihar → Tamil Nadu

Example, A worker spends months stitching in a knitwear unit in Tiruppur, then travels home for Diwali or Chhath. Then he goes back again.

A woman stitching fabric at a sewing machine in a Surat textile unit
02Illustrative

Stitching unit, Surat

Odisha → Gujarat

Example, A worker joins a stitching or finishing unit, learns a trade over several years, and returns to a village with no record of that skill.

A mason in a hard hat laying tiles on a Bengaluru construction site
03Illustrative

Construction site, Bengaluru

Uttar Pradesh → NCR or Bengaluru

Example, A mason or finishing worker moves between real estate and construction sites, building experience that no single employer ever sees.

Workers with bags walking along a village railway platform as a train arrives
04

Festival return, home village

What we map

Corridors, from source village to destination cluster. Seasonality, from festivals to harvests. Skills gained on the road. Return and redeploy, closer to home.

For employers

Find the right workforce. Starting at the village level.

Manufacturing plants, construction sites, textile units, warehouses and businesses often struggle to understand the workforce available around their operating locations.

RojMitra is being built to provide structured workforce intelligence by geography, occupation, skill, experience and availability.

Through the EarlyJobs recruitment network, relevant workforce intelligence can translate into actual hiring execution.

See

Understand who is in the surrounding workforce, what skills they possess and where they have worked.

Reach

Connect with suitable workers who are interested and available for relevant opportunities.

Plan

Understand local workforce supply and plan hiring around industry and seasonal requirements.

Industries

Manufacturing, automotive, rubber, textile and apparel, real estate, construction, warehousing, logistics, retail, healthcare, hospitality and agriculture.

Ecosystem

Intelligence, recruitment, AI and gig hiring, in one system.

Together, these platforms connect workforce intelligence, talent discovery, recruitment execution and employment outcomes.

FAQ

Questions, answered clearly.

What is RojMitra?

RojMitra by EarlyJobs is a village-level workforce intelligence initiative designed to map, document and connect workforce skills, experience, availability and employment journeys across India.

Is RojMitra a job portal?

No. RojMitra is being built as workforce intelligence infrastructure. Recruitment and employment are important outcomes, but its primary focus is understanding India's workforce at the grassroots.

Why does RojMitra start at the village level?

Because villages are where many workers live and maintain their community connections. Starting at the village level helps build more granular workforce information that can be organised upward to block, district, state and national levels.

How can employers benefit from RojMitra?

Employers can use workforce intelligence to understand local talent availability, skills, occupations and work experience. Suitable workers can be connected to hiring opportunities through EarlyJobs.

How does RojMitra record past work experience?

The platform is designed to capture past roles, industries, work locations, employment duration and skills acquired. Verification depends on the available evidence and verification process.

Does RojMitra track worker migration?

RojMitra is designed to document worker migration patterns with appropriate consent. This includes source locations, work destinations, industries, return patterns and experience gained.

Which industries does RojMitra cover?

The intended industry coverage includes manufacturing, automotive, rubber, textile and apparel, construction, real estate, warehousing, logistics, retail, healthcare, hospitality and agriculture.

How is worker information collected?

Worker information is intended to be collected through consent-based registration, supported by local partners and appropriate verification processes.

Is the workforce dashboard showing live data?

No. Any dashboard or worker profile shown on this website as a demonstration uses illustrative data. It does not represent live nationwide workforce coverage.

How can I become a Village Workforce Mitra?

Interested individuals and organisations can submit an enquiry through the Village Workforce Mitra registration section. The team will review the enquiry and contact eligible applicants.

Can government institutions collaborate with RojMitra?

Yes. RojMitra welcomes discussions with government institutions, industry associations, skill development organisations and grassroots networks interested in workforce intelligence and employment infrastructure.

How can a company hire through RojMitra?

Employers can submit their workforce requirements through the employer enquiry form. The team can discuss suitable workforce intelligence and recruitment execution through EarlyJobs.

Indian villagers walking and cycling between village homes, green fields and a nearby textile factory

Consent-based · Village-first · Built by EarlyJobs

One village at a time. One connected workforce intelligence network for India.

Employers, find nearby talent you can finally see. Partners, become a Village Workforce Mitra. Institutions and collaborators, collaborate with us.