"Indian workers turn to Gulf for delivery jobs with better pay,"

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Sameer is one among the 200 people who applied for delivery executive jobs in Dubai through Telangana Overseas Manpower Company Ltd (TOMCOM), a state government initiative, on Thursday. To qualify for the delivery jobs, one has to have a two-wheeler driving licence, Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and know a bit of spoken English. “I got the offer letter where the minimum pay is 1,500 dirham (`33,000) per month,” he told The Indian Express.

While India’s gig economy is thriving with 7.7 million workers (2020), gig workers from the country’s small towns like Karimnagar are looking for greener pastures abroad...

Sameer had worked as a delivery executive with a food aggregator company for three years before landing this job. He took up the gig because he is expected to get better pay. “The more you deliver, the more you earn in Dubai. After the minimum number of deliveries, the executive is promised an additional 7.5 dirham per every new delivery,” he said...

Telangana government facilitated the recruitment drive in Karimnagar as there is a demand for Indian delivery agents in the Gulf. Indian workers are also preferred for their professionalism and their language skills, state government officials said. Prior to the Karimnagar drive, a special recruitment drive was conducted in Hyderabad where 160 registered for jobs and 66 were selected...