Dabbawalas go digital
In the burgeoning digital era, dabbawalas are willing to offer an array of services that include rental registrations to making of aadhar cards
Gone are the days when the traditional dabbawala would come to deliver hot home-cooked food to your office. Dabbawalas have been ever-expanding their services delivering vegetables and various goods along with your food and providing logistic support to MNCs. With the world taking giant leaps into the cyber era the dabbawalas are embracing alternative professions. Out of the many services that www.digitaldabbawala.com, an initiative to combine technology and the government's latest e-technology that aims to provide hassle free doorstep services, one of the them includes providing you with an online rental agreement registration. Having partnered with www.anulom.com, a government approved rental-agreement registration website, all you need to do is login and create a request for a registration. A dabbawala will be directed to your doorstep by an anulom agent with a laptop and a biometric device to thus making it convenient for everyone.www.digitaldabbawala.com website was launched on October 1. It has received about 50 odd registrations till date. Prabodh Navare, Managing director of Anulom Technologies Private Ltd., said, "We have trained more then twenty dabbawalas on how to provide digital service to people, as they are trusted by all. These dabbawalas carry a laptop and biometric machine with them visiting the homes of those who want a rental agreement. They show the agreement format, take their thumb impressions with the help of biometric machine and collect any documents if required. They earn extra through this service."According to Navare the digitaldabbawala.com may even start services like making of aadhar cards, changing names on documents or making other government documents. Anulom will soon train 5000 dabbawalas for digital services. Ganesh Adhari, a dabbawala, said, "When we distributed pamphlets of digitaldabbawala.com to our regular customers, they first thought that we were going online with our dabba services. But the website is to let them know that we have expanded our services from dabbas to digital services."