Mission
To make 450 million blue collars workers in India to be fully trained and become economically independent with simple, standards and effective education, skills and training. Junoon offers vocational training, opening online community colleges in 10k villages, job candidates skill assessment/verification and placement services.
Our Vision
At Junoon we are working very passionately to help millions of unskilled or semi-skilled workers in India to have simple and standard vocation training, skills assessment test, KYC/verification and placement services so that can build career, have good livelihood and contribute in nation building.
What is Junoon
Junoon is a simple, instructional based online vocational training and job search platform that is focused or blue collar jobs. Junoon is founded by Ahaan Aggarwal, who is among the youngest entrepreneurs in India. Ahaan is very passionate about helping unskilled or semi skill workers to develop or enhance their skills and help them become independent economic units.
Why Junoon
Junoon is helping millions of blue collar workers to get some simple, standard and effective vocational job training during Covid.
World’s largest economic hardship going totally unnoticed wherein hundreds of million unskilled or semi skilled blue collars workers in India are without job. Not much has been done for this segment of the society. Junoon is creating simple vocation training material and job engine to help bring back these workers to job market with enhanced or standard skills.
Who it is for
Junoon aims to make bottom 450 million Indians relevant, especially make them economically more viable, enhance their skills and help them to come back to job market in the backdrop of Covid led hardship and massive unemployment. Hundreds of millions blue collar workers are stuck in their home towns , can not get a job until they come back to metro cities and they cannot come to big cities unless job is guaranteed, hence totally stuck. They do not know anything which falls into working from home
History
Junoon started when in March 2020 Ahaan got deeply disturbed observing the mass reverse migration of hundreds of millions of blue collar workers within weeks after Covid led lockdown. Most of these people are unskilled or semi skills, barley live on poverty line and work as daily wagers with hand to mouth. As Covid hit, hundreds of millions of these workers could not survey in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other big cities and started heading back to their villages. The situation was so bad that thousands died out of hunger and tends of thousands either walked or drove cycles to over 1000 miles to be back to their home towns.
Junoon was incorporated in June 2020, training programs started developing from April and the company raised its first round of capital in Oct 2020.
About the Founder
Junoon is founded by Ahaan Aggarwal, a high school senior at the American Embassy School in New Delhi.
“After I saw the numbers, I knew what was missing.”
Back when the national lockdown had begun, Ahaan found that unemployment in manual labor had spiked after offices, warehouses, and many other locations had to shut down because of the lockdown. He created Junoon in order to help the millions of Indians across the country that were struggling to find employment.
“When you raise up the bottom 50%, society prospers”
Ahaan firmly believes that by improving the skills of blue-collar workers, India can experience sizable economic growth. Junoon is his way of giving back to the company.
Ahaan interned with Lightbox VC in the summer of 2020. He attended Harvard Secondary School in Summer 2019. In his free time, Ahaan likes to read and watch movies.
