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A few weeks ago, Gummadi Vittal Rao or 'Gadar', the mercurial bal ladeer and Maoist sympathiser who articulates the angst of the marginalised through his flowing renditions, reached out to the Hyderabad chapter of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) and engaged in an unusual conversation.
The Dalit folk singer who has mesmerised legions with his rough-hewn voice wanted to know whether entrepreneurship is the sure way of s
alvation for those out of the mainstream and in an obtuse way wondered whether it was too late for him to try his hand in business.
Ravi Kumar Narra, DICCI's South India coordinator who is marshalling Dalits across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to come into the business fold reveals that numerous Dalits with a Naxal past have been sending him feelers to take their wards under his wings. For a region that has been racked by bouts of insurgency, this is indeed an encouraging sign.
"Gadar is keen his daughter Vennela adopts the ways of the market and embrace entrepreneurship whole-heartedly," says Narra. Vennela who runs a small school apparently wants to scale up operations and transition to an education entrepreneur.
Narra, son of slum dwellers — a mason father and housemaid mother — clawed his way up through the social hierarchy over the decades and is now a Hyderabadi businessman of repute. He is a role model and, like star surgeons who walk hospital hallways with a gaggle of wide-eyed interns, is always accompanied by a throng of young Dalit entrepreneurs wherever he goes.
DICCI is proactively engaging with the governments of Telangana and Andhra that is beginning to foster an upsurge in policy innovations. It's even triggering competition between chief ministers K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) and N Chandrababu Naidu as they craft a business-friendly environment for Dalits.
Such is the importance accorded to Dalit and minorities empowerment that KCR has retained the social development portfolio with himself.
The aspirations of young, educated Dalits, even women, in the region are spiralling. "I am now refining a logistics plan to collect and transport HDPE waste from across South India," says Aruna Dasari of Ananya Greentech.
Aruna is setting up a Rs 70 lakh plastics reprocessing plant in RangaReddy district and is tapping into the incentives spun under the Telangana State Programme for Rapid Incubation of Dalit Entrepreneurs (TS-PRIDE), which came into effect over a month ago (see table). It's largely an improvement over the policy that existed in unified Andhra.
"Telangana's is the most Dalit-friendly industrial policy in the country and it has ignited a fervour in the region never seen before," concedes Milind Kamble, the Pune-based chairman of DICCI who now spends considerable time in Hyderabad as he prepares for what he describes as the coming 'Davos for Dalit businesses': a massive DICCI convention in Hitex city to be held from February 13-15, 2015, hosted by the KCR government.
Read more at:
How states can learn from Telangana to promote Dalit capitalism - The Economic Times
The Dalit folk singer who has mesmerised legions with his rough-hewn voice wanted to know whether entrepreneurship is the sure way of s
alvation for those out of the mainstream and in an obtuse way wondered whether it was too late for him to try his hand in business.
Ravi Kumar Narra, DICCI's South India coordinator who is marshalling Dalits across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to come into the business fold reveals that numerous Dalits with a Naxal past have been sending him feelers to take their wards under his wings. For a region that has been racked by bouts of insurgency, this is indeed an encouraging sign.
"Gadar is keen his daughter Vennela adopts the ways of the market and embrace entrepreneurship whole-heartedly," says Narra. Vennela who runs a small school apparently wants to scale up operations and transition to an education entrepreneur.
Narra, son of slum dwellers — a mason father and housemaid mother — clawed his way up through the social hierarchy over the decades and is now a Hyderabadi businessman of repute. He is a role model and, like star surgeons who walk hospital hallways with a gaggle of wide-eyed interns, is always accompanied by a throng of young Dalit entrepreneurs wherever he goes.
DICCI is proactively engaging with the governments of Telangana and Andhra that is beginning to foster an upsurge in policy innovations. It's even triggering competition between chief ministers K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) and N Chandrababu Naidu as they craft a business-friendly environment for Dalits.
Such is the importance accorded to Dalit and minorities empowerment that KCR has retained the social development portfolio with himself.
The aspirations of young, educated Dalits, even women, in the region are spiralling. "I am now refining a logistics plan to collect and transport HDPE waste from across South India," says Aruna Dasari of Ananya Greentech.
Aruna is setting up a Rs 70 lakh plastics reprocessing plant in RangaReddy district and is tapping into the incentives spun under the Telangana State Programme for Rapid Incubation of Dalit Entrepreneurs (TS-PRIDE), which came into effect over a month ago (see table). It's largely an improvement over the policy that existed in unified Andhra.
"Telangana's is the most Dalit-friendly industrial policy in the country and it has ignited a fervour in the region never seen before," concedes Milind Kamble, the Pune-based chairman of DICCI who now spends considerable time in Hyderabad as he prepares for what he describes as the coming 'Davos for Dalit businesses': a massive DICCI convention in Hitex city to be held from February 13-15, 2015, hosted by the KCR government.
Read more at:
How states can learn from Telangana to promote Dalit capitalism - The Economic Times
