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New Delhi: Anupam Mittal, judge of ‘Shark Tank India’ and founder of Shaadi.com, has created a sensation in the corporate world by giving a statement. He has made such a big appeal to all the companies of the country, which has won the hearts of every working person. Anupam Mittal has asked companies to think again about when and how to pay salaries to their employees.

His clear argument is that in today’s modern era, salary should ideally be paid twice a month. He advised the companies to stop following the old system of slavery and ‘British-era’, in which salary is given on some date of the next month after working for the whole month.

Startup king Anupam Mittal’s social media post goes viral

Anupam Mittal shared a very interesting post on the professional social media platform LinkedIn. In this post he wrote that today many companies talk big to show themselves as employee-friendly. They boast a lot about benefits like giving more holidays, free food in the office and work from home (remote work). But, often companies completely ignore the most important and basic issue for the employees, and that is – getting salary on time.

He further wrote that most companies credit salary on the 7th of every month. Some companies give it on 1st, but if that day falls on a weekend (Saturday or Sunday), then the salary gets postponed. This means that employees have to wait till the 2nd, 3rd or 4th for the money.

Shaadi.com had changed this rule years ago

To prove his point, Mittal gave the example of his own company. He told that Shaadi.com had made a big change in its payroll process (rules of paying salary) only a few years ago. Now in their company, instead of paying the salary in the beginning of the next month, it is deposited in the employees’ account only on the last day of the same current month.

Anupam Mittal proudly said that a few years ago we had taken a strict decision in our company that the salary should not be received in the next month but at the end of the current month. This is not a ‘perk’ i.e. additional facility or favor given to the employees, but it is completely a matter of ‘common sense’ that the money should be received within the month of work.

Delay in salary wreaks havoc on common man’s budget.

According to Mittal, even a delay of just a few days in receiving salary has a negative impact on the daily expenses and mental peace of the employees. Explaining to the corporate leaders, he said that for the owners of the companies or the accounts department, a delay of one week may be just an ‘accounting detail’. But, for a common employee living on the ground, it means a lot.

He said that being late in salary simply means bounce of EMI from the bank, scrambling to pay the rent to the landlord, facing the embarrassment of reaching out to a friend or relative for money, or wasting half the day in solving problems like penalty charges from the bank. This is a problem that should never have arisen. He argued that timely and easy payment of salaries strengthens the economic stability of employees. Anupam Mittal wrote a powerful line – ‘Cash flow is the real dignity.’

Now comes the revolutionary idea of ​​paying salary twice a month

Understanding the pain of the employees, Anupam Mittal went one step further. He suggested that now companies should seriously consider paying salaries to their employees twice a month.

He said that actually I believe that companies should pay half the salary on the 15th and 30th of every month. Yes, I know that if you do this, people from the payroll team of the companies will probably complain a little about the increase in work. But in this modern era of the year 2026, when we have the best and advanced technology in the world, processing salary twice a month is not ‘rocket science’ or a very difficult task.

This veteran entrepreneur believes that more frequent payment of salaries can reduce the financial stress of employees to a great extent. They can avoid getting trapped in the debt trap or credit card maze. The most interesting thing is that this will also brighten the country’s economy and boost spending in the market.

According to Anupam Mittal, if the employees have good cash flow then there will be less stress, the debt trap will end, the pace of spending in the markets will increase and as a result the country’s GDP will also get a huge boost. In this, the employees are also victorious, the companies are also victorious and the country’s economy is also victorious. Therefore, motivate your HR and let us end this rotten system of ‘payment next month’ of the British era forever.