About the Program

By 2030, nearly a billion Indians will be of working age, and almost half will be youth. However, urban India’s low and middle-income communities face persistent employment challenges, from skills mismatch to language and geography barriers, underemployment, and lack of upward career mobility.

IIMA Ventures, in collaboration with Apna, has launched the Bharat Livelihood Challenge—a virtual hackathon aimed at empowering early-stage startups building impactful solutions in jobs, skilling, and income enhancement for urban Bharat.