If you think 100 Dalit billionaires in 10 years is an impossible goal, think again.
According to Milind Kamble, founder of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), India already has 87 lakh Dalit entrepreneurs, a bulk of whom are vendors to companies such as the Tata group and Hyundai.
So his vision of “100 ‘rupee’ billionaires from the Dalit community in a span of 10 years” doesn’t sound as far-fetched in context. Kamble said there were already about five or six Dalit billionaires in the country, hailing from cities like Bengaluru, Coimbatore, and from the state of Kerala.