BANGALORE: The comeback of Uber, a Taxi app, on the Delhi roads has ushered in a peak in competitiveness in the job market raging the price wars. The new wave of startups in the Indian digital industry is creating ample opportunities for the workers in the informal sector, reports The Economic Times

National Statistical Commission which forms the informal working class in India constitutes 90 percent of the population. The current motive of the government is to transform these workers to the National Skill Development Sector (the formal class) by providing them with proper training and smartening them up to lead their own organizations. This endeavor is estimated to groom more and more employees and hit the count 150 million by 2022.

Entrepreneurs are flying high, hiring more employees by offering lucrative deals. The staff working in ecommerce sector have witness an increase of 60 percent in their wages. “We are slowly seeing a shift to a more organized sector...With technology being an enabler of unprecedented demand, a blue-collar employee, whether in the taxi, delivery or e-commerce space, can find a job in a day," said Vir Kashyap, chief operating officer at Babajob Services.

Babajob also added that the salaries of such drivers have seen a sharp elevation since 2013. Mumbai drivers now earn an average sum of 12,000 while in Bangalore the average salary sums up to 11,000. MeraDriver’s taxi driver earns 13,000 on an average in Delhi.

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