According to the report, the share of workers with regular wage or salaried work started increasing in 2004 from 18 per cent to 25 per cent for men and 10 per cent to 25 per cent for women.

In 1966, a 21-year old Azim Premji left his engineering course at Stanford University to come back and be at the helm of his family business – a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company.