Udhyam Vyapaar aims to make the mission “Making Bharat Entrepreneurial” come alive among the nano-entrepreneurs – those who earn between INR 5000 to INR 25000 a month, whom we call Vyapaaris.
VISION
Udhyam Vyapaar’s mission is to help Vyapaaris reach their highest human potential, help scale their businesses and make them successful in life - thereby making entrepreneurship respectable and aspirational.
With a design thinking approach, we go deep into the lives of identified sub-segments and identify the areas which are the bottlenecks in either mindset and/or the situations. We ideate and together with the Vyapaari’s ecosystem design a solution, which is then prototyped rigorously and measured for scalable impact potential.
Vyapaar believes in creating system level scale, with potential for each solution to reach a minimum of 100K vyapaaris and provide a 2 fold benefit:
- Income uplift
- Mindset change to become more entrepreneurial
MISSION
Enabling Nano entrepreneurship to become respectable and aspirational in India.
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Business Capability Training -
Entrepreneurial Mindsets -
Product Interventions -
Product Interventions
Focus
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Business Capability Training -
Entrepreneurial Mindsets -
Product Interventions
Approach
- Customer Immersion
- Diagnosing Needs
- Prototyping & piloting
- Learning & Data
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Problem Identification
Outcomes
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Behavioral Change -
Product Interventions -
Income Upliftment
PROGRAMS
The Istri Project
AN INITIATIVE AIMED AT MARKET TRANSFORMATION FROM COAL AS AN INPUT FUEL TO LPG FOR IRONING VYAPAARIS.
IMPACT DELIVERED
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30%
Income upliftment per month
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50%
Reduction in fuel cost
1-2
Hours of time saved daily
2.5K
Tonnes of coal reduced from ecosystem
Digital enablement of food vendor
A mission to uplift food street vendors and small hotel business owners by onboarding them onto popular food delivery aggregator platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, ONDC, and more. Through digital enablement, we are empowering these entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, expand their reach, and embrace the digital age for a prosperous future.
+ THE ISTRI PROJECT
Transforming Istri Vyapaaris from 19th century working model to 21st century solutions
IMPACT DELIVERED
5300
Istri Vyapaaris Enabled
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25Cr+
Income Uplift (Annual recurring)
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38 L
Additional productive hours enabled in an year (Annual recurring)
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2.5K
Tonnes of coal usage reduced (Annual recurring)
+ DIGITAL ENABLEMENT OF FOOD VENDORS
A mission to empower food street vendors and small hotel business owners, by onboarding them onto popular food delivery aggregator platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, ONDC, and more. Through digital enablement, we are enabling these entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, expand their reach, and embrace the digital age for a prosperous future.
+ RURAL AND WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
A mission to enable Rural and Peri-Urban Enterprises towards improving their systems, methods of working, address key business challenges and finally increase their earnings. Many of these are Women run enterprises that are supported through Self Help Groups (SHGs). Udhyam Vyapaar is currently working in the field directly with these Nano-Enterprises on a pilot program and helping them improve their Sourcing, Market Reach, Training and adopt Innovative Solutions. The solutions thus worked out for each sector will then be targeted for scaling up throughout India.
The Istri Project
AN INITIATIVE AIMED AT MARKET TRANSFORMATION FROM COAL AS AN INPUT FUEL TO LPG FOR IRONING VYAPAARIS.
IMPACT DELIVERED
Digital enablement of food vendor
A mission to uplift food street vendors and small hotel business owners by onboarding them onto popular food delivery aggregator platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, ONDC, and more. Through digital enablement, we are empowering these entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, expand their reach, and embrace the digital age for a prosperous future.
OUR PARTNERS
STORIES OF IMPACT
Venkatesh | Vyapaari
Venkatesh used a coal ironing box and earned INR 400- 500 daily but his income increased 1.4x times after transitioning to the LPG ironing boxes as now he can iron more clothes. Finishing is perfect in the LPG iron box. He says ‘Customers used to be unhappy with us whenever their clothes got burnt due to coal. Now we do not have any such problems. Further, Coal has to be changed 4-5 times a day. This time can be saved if you use an LPG iron box. The best part of this iron box is that we can adjust the heat based on the type of clothes we are ironing.
Anandi | Vyapaari
I provided tailor services for my business but COVID caused my business to shut down. Making use of the cash grants by Udhyam Vyapaar in the first wave of COVID and some training sessions I had attended, it was possible to start a new business. I rented a cart and started selling vegetables and flowers. I began offering home deliveries of groceries and took orders for vegetables & groceries on WhatsApp. Udhyam Vyapaar also enabled me to adopt UPI to avail Udhyami Loan.
Kavitha | Vyapaari
I hail from a family of ironing vyapaaris. However I decided to start my own beauty parlour. During the pandemic I started offering beauty services at home and took orders through WhatsApp. I ensured that I maintain hygiene while treating my clients and this made my customers trust me. With the support of INR 10,000 (received from Udhyam Vyapaar during COVID lockdown) I could stock up beauty products and hence in addition to my regular services, I was able to start selling beauty products
LEADERSHIP
Krishnan Ranganathan
Co-founder, Director - Udhyam Vyapaar
Krishnan moved into the development sector in late 2017 to explore the intersection of Education and Entrepreneurship, after a 13-year stint in the technology consulting space.
At Udhyam, Krishnan started as a volunteer and later on led the Udhyam Shiksha program for 3 years scaling Shiksha's reach from 500 learners per year in 1 state to a million learners across 10 states. He now runs the Udhyam Vyapaar program and is now on a mission to scale Vyapaar's impact to a million Vyapaaris.
