How many entrepreneurs are there in india

This resonates with Kishore Biyani , founder of Future Group. More women need to join the entrepreneurial brigade casting aside doubts and hesitations. We need more and more entrepreneurs from the non-metros, the tier II and III cities and villages where the real India lives.

We have a multitude of examples among us where driven individuals from the hinterlands have gone on to create stellar organizations of immense value. Go build your company and then be a job creator and change lives all around you.

Your family will be proud. In the words of Shishir Modi, the founder of Niki. To anyone reading this article, I would say that if being an entrepreneur is for you, think big and go all out.

But remember that the rules of success are the same for everyone. No one is disadvantaged—unless only you think so. Ten million entrepreneurs can come up with the right solutions to the one billion problems".

Cheers to that! Entrepreneur 4. Ronnie Screwvala is a first generation entrepreneur and chairman and co-founder of upGrad, an online educational platform. Never miss a story! Stay connected and informed with Mint. During the 12 waves of CPHS conducted since January , the total employment has been estimated at between million and million with an average of million.

The first wave conducted during January-April estimated employment at million and the last wave conducted during September-December estimated employment at Evidently, there hasn't been much movement on total employment over the four years since Within this stable of million employed persons, the share of employment for those less than 30 years of age has been declining.

Those in their thirties also accounted for a quarter of the total employment in early and their share fell lesser to 23 per cent. It is intriguing because India is a young country with 35 per cent of its working age population in the to year bracket.

This structural shift in the age profile is also disturbing because an ageing profile is least capable of tackling with the challenges of new technology and an increasingly competitive business environment. Salaried employees include industrial workers, white collar workers, managers and support staff. It excludes farmers, traders, wage labourers and entrepreneurs. We observe that salaried jobs have remained within a narrow band of 86 million and 88 million during this period.

The Randstad Workmonitor covers 33 countries around the world. The study is conducted online among employees aged 65, working a minimum of 24 hours a week in a paid job not self-employed. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail. Start a Conversation. Follow us on. Living and entertainment iDiva MensXP.