This entrepreneur is providing livelihood to women in Bihar’s Bhagalpur by manufacturing handwoven sarees
Khitish Pandya’s tryst with the manufacturing sector is over two decades long. After completing his MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, he opened a unit in Delhi to manufacture portable houses and mobile toilet vans. In 1998, he met with an accident which brought some unexpected challenges and “everything went downhill.” The unit had to be closed down in 1999.
While Khitish was looking for a job and doing consulting work for different businesses, he came in contact with an NGO called Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN). Started in 1983 by Deep Joshi and Vijay Mahajan, the non-profit organisation has been working to uplift people in rural areas.