Meet Abhishek Pathak whose Rs 2.5 cr khadi brand Greenwear Fashion provides livelihoods to 500 women
Abhishek Pathak founded a business to give a living for rural women artisans who work with solar charkhas. Greenwear Fashion has offered employment to around 500 women in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Abhishek Pathak, a textile designer by trade, is from the small hamlet of Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh and is India's first solar vastra (garment) entrepreneur. Greenwear Fashion, established in Lucknow, sells clothing made of yarn spun from solar charkhas, fabric created from solar looms, and clothing embroidered on solar stitching machines. The entire manufacturing process is solar powered, hence the term solar vastra. How a man from a middle-class family, the youngest of four siblings in a rural village, went on to study textile design in one of India's finest fashion universities in Delhi and set up his enterprise with a seed capital of Rs 50 lakh from IIM Calcutta. Innovation Park (IIMCIP) demonstrates that the strength of purpose, rather than other thing...