{"id":1002408,"date":"2026-04-10T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002408"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:08:04","slug":"how-ai-is-transforming-rural-labour-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/how-ai-is-transforming-rural-labour-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI is transforming rural labour markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s rural labour market is one of the largest in the world, yet it still runs largely without records, forecasting, or formal infrastructure. Workers are hired through labour chowks, mukadams, and personal networks; farmers make last-minute calls without knowing who is available, who is skilled, or what labour they will need next week. The result is a market where supply exists, demand exists, but the two do not meet efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>This problem is hardest at the bottom of the pyramid. Many workers are tribal, migrate seasonally from remote villages, share phones within the household, and often rely on feature phones rather than smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s rural labour market is one of the largest in the world, yet it still runs largely without records, forecasting, or formal infrastructure. Workers are hired through labour chowks, mukadams, and personal networks; farmers make last-minute calls without knowing who is available, who is skilled, or what labour they will need next week. The result is a market where supply exists, demand exists, but the two do not meet efficiently. This problem is hardest at the bottom of the pyramid. Many workers are tribal, migrate seasonally from remote villages, share phones within the household, and often rely on feature phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}