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Vishwakarma Sankul
A services marketplace that turns registered artisans into paid work, with a catalogue of trades, demand from institutional buyers and local service hubs.
The problem
Government artisan portals have registered large numbers of karigars, but very little paid work flows through them. The gap is not registration. It is demand and operations: someone has to bring in orders, dispatch the right person, and make sure they get paid.
What we built
A services marketplace that connects registered artisans to paid household, institutional and business work:
- A WhatsApp channel for customers and artisans, with a web console for operators.
- A service catalogue of 11 sectors, 25 trades and about 520 services, organised by how the work arrives: emergency, scheduled, survey-and-quote and recurring.
- Prices held as data, not code, with district-level rate cards.
- Sankuls: local physical hubs for parts, tools and custody, so work can be dispatched quickly.
- Demand from institutional buyers, replacing the paid marketing a consumer platform would rely on.
URJA's role
Product specification, catalogue design, platform architecture and build, from the first interviews with artisans to the operating model for the hubs.
What comes next
A pilot in two cities, then a statewide rollout.
Tailoring 
Carpentry 
Blacksmithing 
Goldsmithing
