Article: Rural liberator ; With village youth comprising three-fourths of its employee base, BVG India has struck upon a unique and cost-competitive business model in facilities management and support services.

He is from Rahimatpur village in Maharashtra's Satara district. His family moved to Pune when he was 12. His mother was a municipal school teacher in Pune. He lost his father when he was 17. He grew up in a 10x10 room along with his younger brother, mother and his grandparents. He went on to get a degree in engineering from VIT (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology) Pune and paid his fees by tutoring diploma students, selling jams and pickles door-to-door and taking up painting contracts.

Today, Hanmant R. Gaikwad, 37, is Chairman & Managing Director of a Rs 200-crore company. But wait, here's where this rags-to-riches story takes a twist. Gaikwad didn't make his crores by hitting the ...

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