Serial entrepreneur Kamal Kumbhar is mentoring thousands of women to follow in her path
3
Kamal Kumbhar was born in Osmanabad, Maharashtra to a daily-wage labourer. Living in absolute poverty, where three meals a day was a luxury, there was no room to think about education. As a result, after a failed marriage, she was financially vulnerable. However, she fought against the odds to start a business venture and is now providing livelihood opportunities to thousands of women like her.
Kamal started Kamal Poultry and Ekta Producer Company in 1998 with no knowledge of business or marketing, with a meagre sum of Rs 2,000. Twenty years later, the company brings in about Rs 1 lakh every month. Apart from that, she has so far mentored more than 5,000 women from her state to set up similar enterprises and become self-sufficient. According to