Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma, A Rags-To-Riches Star Of Start-Up Ecosystem

Paytm fonder Vijay Shekhar Sharma faces the challenge to keep the company operations running and regain investors' confidence.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, one of the most prominent faces of India's fintech industry, is facing a big crisis in a race to save his revolutionary digital payments firm - Paytm.

Mr Sharma faces the challenge to keep the company operations running and regain investors' confidence after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ordered Paytm's banking arm to stop most of its operations from March 1 over the violation of norms.

This marks a stunning twist in the Paytm story, which started from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, Vijay Shekhar Sharma's hometown.