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{{short description|Leather exporter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date = June 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hari Kishan Pippal
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1951}}
| birth_place = [[Agra]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
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| known_for = Dalit businesses
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'''Hari Kishan Pippal''' is an Indian entrepreneur from [[Agra]], India. He is the managing director of People's Group, a company that owns a hospital, a shoe export factory, an auto dealership, and a publication house. He is noted for creating successful businesses as a member of the [[Dalit]] community, a marginalised community in India, after starting out in extreme poverty, including working as a [[rickshaw puller]] in Agra. He also serves as the president of [[Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry|DICCI]].

== Biography ==
Hari Kishan Pippal was born in [[Jatav]] ([[Dalit]]) community, to Ramsingh Pippal in Agra, India. His father used to run a shoe repair shop where he started working at a young age. When he was in tenth grade, his father died due to a stroke. He was married shortly thereafter, at the age of 12, and worked as a rickshaw puller and later as a daily wage labourer in Agra.<ref name="smepost-2017">{{Cite web |date=2017-08-10 |title=Heritage People's Hospital {{!}} Hari Kishan Pippal's story overcoming barriers |url=https://smepost.com/success-stories/heritage-peoples-hospital-hari-kishan-pippals-story-overcoming-barriers/25216 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=SMEpost |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=From riding rickshaw to running multi-crore business: Hari Kishan Pippal's inspiring story |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=239510 |access-date=2020-06-07 |website=www.daijiworld.com}}</ref>

Pippal got a loan of {{INRConvert|15|k}} from [[Punjab National Bank]] in 1975 to expand his family's shoe shop. He received his first large order from "State Trading Corporation," for ten thousand pairs of shoes. Eventually he launched his own shoe brand known as 'Harrykson.'<ref name="smepost-2017" />

=== Business ===
H. K. Pippal is managing director of People's Exports (P) Limited and People's Heritage Hospital Ltd., one of the largest private medical facilities in [[Braj]]. His leather products consists of Hush Puppies shoes for [[Bata (company)|Bata]] and are traded to Bulgaria, England and other countries.<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 April 2013 |title=Growing breed of talented, self-confident Dalits make its presence felt in variety of fields|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19940430-growing-breed-of-talented-self-confident-dalits-make-its-presence-felt-in-variety-of-fields-809066-1994-04-30|access-date=2020-06-07|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-12-23 |title=Rich Indian can't buy out of lowest caste |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45770579 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

He also owns a [[Honda Cars India|Honda]] dealership, a banquet hall and a publication house in [[Agra]] region. He has a turnover of more than {{INRConvert|100|c}}. He is also the president of [[Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry|DICCI]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-01-24|title=Why only Tatas, why not give sops to dalit businessman?|url=https://www.governancenow.com/views/interview/why-only-tatas-why-not-give-sops-dalit-businessman|access-date=2020-06-07|website=Governance Now|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2017-12-17|title=Story of A Rickshaw Driver Who Became Millionaire|url=https://www.indiatimemail.com/story-rickshaw-driver-who-became-millionaire/|access-date=2020-06-07|website=India Time Mail|language=en}}</ref>

He even contested in 2012 [[Uttar Pradesh]] [[State Legislative Assembly (India)|Legislative Assembly]] elections from [[Agra Cantonment (Assembly constituency)|Agra Cantonment]] on a [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] ticket.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hari Kishan Pipal (Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- AGRA CANTT. (SC)(AGRA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate |url=http://myneta.info/up2012/candidate.php?candidate_id=1597 |access-date=2020-06-07 |website=myneta.info}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Pippal was featured in the books, '''Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs''<nowiki/>' written by [[Devesh Kapur]], D Shyam Babu and [[Chandra Bhan Prasad]],<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kapur|first1=Devesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sSz_AwAAQBAJ&dq=hari+kishan+pippal&pg=PT203|title=Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs|last2=Babu|first2=D. Shyam|last3=Prasad|first3=Chandra Bhan|date=2014-07-18|publisher=Random House India|isbn=978-81-8400-639-1|language=en}}</ref> ''Dalit Millionaires''<nowiki/>' by Milind Khandekar.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=IANS|date=2014-01-20|title=Inspiring accounts of Dalits who became millionaires (Book Review)|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/inspiring-accounts-of-dalits-who-became-millionaires-book-review-114012000158_1.html|access-date=2020-06-07}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1951 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian businesspeople]]
[[Category:People from Agra]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Dalit businesspeople]]

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