This was needs a bit of trial and error approach, I would say.
We thought this could be a bigger issue but has been going ok so far - again, getting into an apartment setup helped here as well. You have access to larger pool of these folks and they are looking for work all the time. Dropped a work with security and maintenance and they were able to send across few who work in other units. (later on, came to know from current maid that security collects Rs. 200 for such referral - talk about the 'system' here!!)
What we found works best was - getting them in the evening so that you are not waiting on them to finish and get to work. Needless to say, you can't expect them to be that punctual and also asking for day offs here and there. With weekends getting busy visiting relatives, friends and family, they do end up getting good amount of day offs anyway.
Other thing that is helpful is - registering with the apartmentadda.com - a site that is commonly used by most of the apartments here in Bangalore. The building secretary has to approve the registration and you get all of the postings from within the community, which includes 'cook available/looking', 'driver available/looking' type of postings.
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