Re: [silk] Migrant workers and bank accounts

2013-04-19 Thread Deepak Shenoy
Few things from my side: We are trying to understand financial needs of migrant workers: Do they have bank accounts? Many do, now. Those that are hired as security guards by an agency typically get paid (in urban areas) by the agency through bank accounts - the guards in two complexes I lived

Re: [silk] Migrant workers and bank accounts

2013-04-19 Thread Nandkumar Saravade
On 19-Apr-2013, at 1:16 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote: . How do they send money home? Lots of ways. The standard is for people to send money through someone else travelling back. Once in Gurgaon, a huge truck was hired to send back goods home to a village in Bengal, by

Re: [silk] Migrant workers and bank accounts

2013-04-19 Thread Caitlin Marinelli
These are great inputs everyone, and thank you. To be honest, your answers were much more optimistic than I was expecting. You always hear things like 70% of the country is still unbanked - and I figured migrants would definitely be in this category.

[silk] Intro

2013-04-19 Thread Usha Hanumanthappa
Hello silklisters. Met some of you last night @ the roof party. Had fun being there. I am a director at a Management Consulting firm and mother to 2 lovely kids. I have been privy to all the interesting stuff on this list for a few years now, thanks to Venkat.:). hellos

Re: [silk] coming calamity in Bangalore

2013-04-19 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: [...] It is easy for one who has voted with his feet to condemn those who can't. No sense going after the arguer, please do attack the argument. Without some sensitivity a lot of very valid concerns sound like, You must