Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is a change. Generally, involving risk beyond what normally encounters in starting a business plan. This may include other values than simply economic ones.
Despite these challenges, hundreds of entrepreneurs begin on this road each year. They motivate themselves to realize the vision. And similarly, fill a gap in the market. Therefore, they create physical stores, start tech companies, or provide a new product or service to the market.
Some of the Nepalese has become one of the finest entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is the skill that keeps on developing through one’s ability to start up their business. Nepalese in the industrial city of Ludhiana in Punjab, India share their rags-to-riches stories.
They worked as domestics and dishwashers. Now they are successful entrepreneurs
When Bikash Magar left his village in Arghakhanchi. He was just 17 years old. He didn’t know about his next destination and he arrived in Ludhiana, a district in the Punjab state of India. Just by chance as he had heard that there were many Nepalese working, also from his district.
“My family’s financial situation was bad, so I needed to find some work. When I left home, I had not even completed my 10th class,” Bikash Magar, who is usually known as Bikash Reshmi, told the Post on a recent afternoon seated at a decent office he has built for himself. “It took me years to earn this office and a decent life.”
He is now 36. From working as a domestic help to doing odd jobs to make ends meet, Reshmi has now made his name as a well-known businessman. He runs a catering business in Ludhiana. Reshmi has contracts for car parking and canteens on the premises of the Christian Medical Colleges and Hospital. There are around 70 people working with him. Besides he owes Reshmi Caterers where there are 50 people working there.
From a poor man in a village which now falls in Panini Rural Municipality to a businessman in India’s industrial district. Reshmi’s journey has not been easy.
“It was when I was working in canteens that I got the idea of operating such a facility,” he said. “I managed to get the contract to operate a school canteen through some acquaintances. Thereafter, I didn’t have to look back.”
Hira Chand is from Baitadi. One fine day in 1988, he left his home for Mumbai to visit his uncle. But he caught the wrong train to land in Ludhiana. Since, he had little money to sustain, he started counting needle in needle manufacturing company. He worked there for few months. Later he got a job at Duke, an apparel and footwear company. That’s where he learned quite a few things. Today he is the owner of Hira Printers, a company that designs clothing. He also employs dozens of people.
Hari Prasad Ghimire operates the canteen at the hospital. He is known as one of the most successful ones in the field of canteen and catering, according to locals and Nepalese in Ludhiana.
He came to India first in 1980 and washed dishes at restaurants. And he worked as a watchman. He saved every little penny to set up set up a small catering business. It has now grown over the year.
Nepalese who come to work in India should consider setting up their own enterprise once they have some savings. It does not have to be big. Even a small business of your own, like a tea shop, can help earn a decent living. No matter what age you are, if you have good skills, finding employment is not a problem.
