About:
My name is Sarthak Saksena and I am a Manager of Technical Services at Cisco Systems. I
am better known as Sarthak to my friends. Travel, music, and technology are my passions.
I am committed to rural transformation and realize that unless we tap the talent amongst the
youth in rural areas and develop them as grassroots leaders, sustainable change will not
happen. If migration from rural to urban areas is to be stopped and then finally reversed, there
is a need to create entrepreneurs locally within rural communities. Nothing democratizes
wealth better than micro-entrepreneurship. This is the belief with which we have started our
journey to develop 10,000 rural entrepreneurs in next five years.
Investing INR 100,000 in an individual to transform her/him into an entrepreneur is, in my
opinion, a very fruitful and smart investment. Each rural entrepreneur so developed becomes
a role model to many others. Over a period of time, through their micro-enterprises, they will
become job-creators in their communities and possibly, help develop many more
entrepreneurs locally.
Our villages are the bedrock of our nation and a stronger rural community is what will make
us a nation to contend with, over the next few decades. I strongly believe that we can nurture
young rural boys and girls to be engines of hope and transformation in their communities.
Please support my campaign.