“Proud To Constitute Get started-Up Neighborhood”: Naukri.com Founder On Padma Shri

New Delhi:

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and vice-chairman of Naukri.com, is one of the recipients of the Padma Shri awards, India’s fourth best possible civilian honour, that have been introduced by means of the federal government on Saturday.

Quickly after his identify was once introduced, Sanjeev Bikhchandani tweeted that he was once “honoured and privileged” to had been given the award, including that he felt proud to constitute the “beginning up entrepreneur neighborhood on this record”. Aside from Mr Bikhchandani, industrialist Bharat Goenka, technocrat Nemnath Jain have additionally been conferred the Padma Shri.

Honoured and privileged to seek out my identify within the Padma Shri record.
Whilst I’ve been given this award in actual fact I owe it to the joint efforts and reinforce of such a lot of other folks – colleagues, family and friends.
Proud to constitute the beginning up entrepreneur neighborhood on this record

– Sanjeev Bikhchandani (@sbikh) January 25, 2020

Mr Bikhchandani was once born and taken up in Delhi and were given his Bachelor’s stage from St Stephens School. He finished his post-graduation from IIM-Ahmedabad in 1989 and give up his activity for entrepreneurship eighteen months later.

However the first seven years of his entrepreneurial dream was once now not easy as he needed to do quite a lot of small companies – from wage surveys to databases, to feasibility research, to coaching – ahead of beginning Naukri.com from a servant quarter in 1997, which turned into the primary web corporate.

Naukri.com, which Mr Bikhchandani began with a seed capital of Rs 2,000, nowadays employs over 4,000 other people and has a marketplace capitalisation of over $ 4.five billion.

The corporate additionally runs Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, and Shiksha.com. As well as it has made strategic investments in promising internet start-u.s.similar to Zomato, Policybazaar, Shopkirana and Ustraa.

For his industry abilities, Sanjeev Bikhchandani has been awarded Ernst and Younger – Entrepreneur of the Yr award prior to now. In April 2017, Outlook Mag decided on him as one in all India’s 50 largest CEO’s ever.

In 2011 he was once conferred the Outstanding Alumnus award by means of IIM Ahmedabad and in 2012 he was once honoured with the CF Andrews Outstanding Alumnus award by means of St. Stephen’s School. He’s a member of the Board of the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad.

He additionally helps 1947PartitionArchive – a now not for benefit this is development an oral historical past archive consisting of video interviews of people that skilled partition.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani could also be a founding trustee of Ashoka College.