National Capital Region

These figures are particularly interesting because they point toward an opportunity beyond India's largest metropolitan markets.

Quick commerce is often discussed through the lens of Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR.

But the next stage of growth could also depend on how well platforms serve consumers in smaller cities.

Flipkart already has a broad e-commerce presence and relationships with customers across India.

Both companies want a bigger share of household spending and Blinkit is betting on choice.

Its Delhi NCR catalogue has grown from about 80,000 to 100,000 SKUs or individual product variants such as different pack sizes of body wash.

And the aim is more choice within existing categories plus entirely new ones.

But a broader catalog is harder to manage.

This regulatory framework aims to reduce dependence on imported crude oil while creating demand for domestic biofuel production.

However, the success relies on automakers bringing compatible models to market and the petroleum ministry expanding fuel retail outlets across corridors like Delhi NCR and the Mumbai Pune Nagpur region.

While the long-term strategy looks at ethanol, current crude prices are hitting the stock market immediately.

High oil costs combined with rising lending rates have taken a toll on small cap stocks.

In between, I was briefly at Renew Power for two years as their SVP of strategy for utilities and, uh, also joined EY-Parthenon as a partner in decarbonization practice.

So having seen the renewable generation, hydro generation, consulting, working with private sector in the country, designing solutions, and now given an opportunity to work in a utility, which is the largest utility in the National Capital Region, as you said rightly.

With our sister concern, we manage about 70% of, uh, customers.

We, we are proud, proudly, uh, serving them.

So at Rihu Health we are building pharmacy dark stores.

Uh, at Delhi NCR is our first market that we are targeting.

So our motto is pretty simple.

Speed and fulfillment are the two pillars that we are building Rihu on.

See, all three of us, if we go to a doctor and a doctor writes us Calpol, we simply go out there and buy it। ठीक है। Nobody is looking for 10 variations or 10 different antibiotics and then buying one.

So if played right, I think it would be one of the highest penetrated categories and that is where we are coming from.

So like, uh, if I have to quote certain numbers, I think Delhi NCR is a 150 to 200 odd dark store market, which is like three to 4,000 crores in itself.

And if you look at top 10 metros, I think the market is around 15 to 20,000 crores with like 800 to 1,000 odd dark stores that you can set up.

But the common thing was I always wanted to do something new.

So at some point I wanted to become a scientist, which my dad dismissed totally because his father had dismissed saying that you will be 50, 60. years old more it's more than a doctor that it takes a scientist to be successful so he was like no choose something better because I would always have these random crazy ideas to share one of that so I come from Delhi NCR and there's such so much traffic and I think that was little I was a little older than 10 definitely when I was I think driving or I don't remember exactly but I would wonder you know what how can we solve the traffic problem in India so I think when you used to go to just to go out for dinner or something, there would be these escalators in the hotels in India, which we would just go in.

It will move you like how we have an airport.

So I used to think our roads should be like that where... let's say every car every human being cow or whatever is on the road indian roads can just come on the road and rather than people moving on the road the road will move and then nobody has to take oh i need to cut this first because that was horrifying to me everybody is cutting everywhere and then maybe it could be solar powered

But where did you actually grow up? And what was upbringing like? What was the culture like around you? And were everyone seeking a certain thing? Were you following that traditional path of what everyone was seeking? Or what was the spark at the time when you were 15, 16, 17? You kind of have to make additions.

right okay this is this is the path i'm rather taking and so what was that like uh where did he grow up and if you can tell us a little bit more on that

sure yeah i i'm i'm originally punjabi so i was born in punjab but i was five and my parents moved to paritabad so i'm i primarily was i was born up born in punjab but grew up in delhi ncr area so my education was also there And we're asking about the path.

So I said, yeah, I actually love talking to people.