Find a nanny in Kolkata near you
Find a trusted nanny or babysitter for your child anywhere in Kolkata. Review ID-verified profiles, chat safely before you decide, and put the hours and duties in writing — you agree the wage directly, with no commission.
Hiring a nanny in Kolkata
Leaving your child with someone is the hardest hire a household ever makes, and it is the one most often made on the thinnest information — a name from a neighbour, a phone call, and hope. Kolkata still runs largely on introductions — a helper who already works in your building vouching for a cousin. That works until you are new to the city or the para, and then you are hiring a stranger on someone else's word with nothing written down.
Sevetu puts the checks first. You see an ID-verified profile, you chat before you commit, and the hours, duties and salary go into a digital work agreement. Set what you need — school runs, full-day care, or a babysitter for evenings — and nannies in your part of Kolkata apply. Sevetu never takes a commission.
What kind of nanny can you hire?
How to hire, in four honest steps
Post your nanny job
Share the role, your locality in Kolkata, timings and budget. It takes about two minutes.
Review verified applicants
Compare experience, skills and ID verification at a glance — you always know who you are talking to.
Chat & agree on terms
Settle salary, hours, weekly off and duties over secure in-app chat. You decide the terms.
Sign a digital agreement
What you both agreed is recorded in a simple digital work agreement — clear for both sides.
What should you pay nannies in Kolkata?
What actually sets the rate
Hours, how many people live in the house, exactly which tasks are included, whether the role is live-in, and how far the nanny has to travel to reach you. Two households on the same street can pay very differently and both be fair.
Ask your own street first
An ILO and IIHS study of domestic work in Indian cities found households calibrate to the running rate in their own neighbourhood, and are reluctant to break it — which is why pay clusters tightly inside one society in Kolkata and jumps between them. Your building is a better guide than any city-wide average.
Then put it in writing
Salary, hours, weekly off, paid leave, notice period and festival bonus. Agreeing all six at the start is the single best thing you can do to make the arrangement last.
We do not publish a salary table for Kolkata, and that is deliberate. No independent source measures home-help pay reliably at city level, and a number we invented would only anchor you to a figure with nothing behind it. Work it out from the job in front of you, and agree it directly — Sevetu takes no commission either way.
How to get a police verification in Kolkata
Sevetu runs an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar or government ID. That confirms a person is who they say they are. It is not a police or criminal-background check, and we will never describe it as one. What we do and do not check →
If you want a police check as well — and for live-in roles, childcare and drivers it is worth it — you arrange it yourself, and in Kolkata there is an official route. Kolkata Police handles it through the Domestic Help profile form, through the Bondhu citizen portal and app. Kolkata Police publishes a Domestic Help Profile Form and also collects the same details through the Bondhu Kolkata Police citizen app. Kolkata Police — official portal →
Government processes change. Check the official Kolkata Police site for the current form, fee and documents before you apply. Sevetu is not affiliated with any police department.
Nannies across Kolkata
Sevetu is rolling out across Kolkata, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Post your job with your locality and verified nannies near you can apply — including Salt Lake · New Town · Ballygunge · Behala · Jadavpur · Garia · Tollygunge · Alipore · Dum Dum · Park Street · Lake Gardens · Baguiati · Howrah · Barasat and more. Posting your exact area rather than just "Kolkata" gets you fewer applicants but far more who can realistically make the commute every day.
Where Sevetu is in Kolkata right now
Sevetu is newest in Kolkata — we started in Bengaluru and are opening city by city. Posting a job is free and takes about two minutes, and verified helpers in your area apply to it. If nobody suitable applies, you have lost nothing but the two minutes. We would rather tell you that than pretend to a roster we do not yet have.
Why hire through Sevetu
ID-verified profiles
Every profile can carry a Verified badge from an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar / government-ID — so you know who you are letting into your home. (It is an identity check, not a police background check.) How verification works →
Safe, in-app chat
Talk before you decide. Your phone number stays private and every conversation stays on record.
No commission, agreed in writing
You pay the worker directly — Sevetu never takes a cut. Salary, hours, weekly off, leave and notice are documented in a digital work agreement both sides accept.
Frequently asked questions
Post your job with your locality — Salt Lake, New Town, Ballygunge or wherever you are — the age of your child and the hours you need. Nannies who can genuinely commute to you apply.
In practice most Kolkata families use the words interchangeably. On Sevetu what matters is the hours you post: regular daily childcare, or occasional evening cover. Both are on the platform.
Nannies can carry a Verified badge from an identity (KYC) check against Aadhaar or a government ID. It is an identity check, not a police, criminal-background or qualification check — for childcare especially, please also meet in person, ask for references and trust your own judgement.
Yes, and we would encourage it for childcare. Kolkata Police runs the Domestic Help profile form, through the Bondhu citizen portal and app — the section above explains how. Sevetu verifies identity only and cannot do this for you.
We do not publish a figure, deliberately. Childcare pay varies with the hours, the age and number of children, whether cooking or cleaning is included, and whether the role is live-in — and it settles locally rather than city-wide. Agree it directly with her.
Most speak some combination of Bengali, Hindi and English. For a young child it is worth choosing someone who shares the language you speak at home — applicants list theirs on their profile.
Yes. Set it when you post the job, and be explicit about accommodation, food, weekly off and time boundaries — live-in roles go wrong most often over hours, not money.
Hours, days off, exactly which duties are included (childcare only, or childcare plus cooking or cleaning), leave, notice and salary. Sevetu records it digitally so both sides have the same version.
Verified home help, from your phone
Sevetu is live on the App Store and Google Play. Download the app and post your Kolkata job in minutes.