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Contributions made to NABFOUNDATION can be claimed as a deduction under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act. This deduction can be claimed by Individuals, Company, or NGOs.
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NABFOUNDATION
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NARIMAN POINT, Mumbai
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NABFOUNDATION's annual report for the year 2021-22 provides an in-depth insight into the dedicated efforts behind our ongoing projects and how we facilitated the materialization of the principles of ‘re-’ by continuously re-visiting, re-evaluating, and re-imagining our work.
On 31st August 2022, NABFOUNDATION celebrated its 3rd Foundation Day. On the occasion, NABFOUNDATION released a vibrant corporate brochure titled 'NABFOUNDATION so far.'
‘NABFOUNDATION so far’ entails brief write-ups on NABFOUNDATION’s most prominent projects and activities in the last year. The brochure aims to encapsulate NABFOUNDATION’s journey, and how it works to further the development agenda of its parent body- NABARD.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, this small booklet was launched as an ode to all the women beneficiaries covered under NABFOUNDATION's projects. #BreakTheBias.
On the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child, 11 th October 2021, NABFOUNDATION has launched a pan-India video making competition for girls between the age group of 13-18 years.
This brochure provides an insight into ‘why’ and ‘how’ NABFOUNDATION came into being, and highlights its scope and area of work. Additionally, the brochure elaborates on the on-going and up-coming projects of NABFOUNDATION.
NABFOUNDATION’s annual report for the year 2020-21 covers the dynamic work undertaken by NABFOUNDATION throughout the year. It also encapsulates the major happenings in the development sector and some thought-provoking pieces by the leaders in the development space.
MPMR Brochure
In an attempt to ensure consumer awareness, this brochure briefly elaborates upon the backstory of project ‘My Pad | My Right’ (MPMR) and the multiple USPs of the MPMR pads.
This booklet attempts to capture the initiatives undertaken by NABFOUNDATION to promote project ‘My Pad | My Right’ (MPMR) and the experiences of all the districts covered under phase 1 of project. It also elaborates on the collective issues faced and the solutions provided through an effective feedback mechanism.
This report covers the third party evaluation of project ‘My Pad | My Right’ (MPMR) using a sample of 5 districts. It elaborates on the areas of improvement and the milestones achieved under Phase-1 of MPMR.
NABFOUNDATION’s annual report for the year 2019-20 entails the vision and mission behind NABFOUNDATION’s formulation, and elaborates on the conceptualization and implementation of several projects.
Shri Jitender Kalra, B.Tech and MBA, comes with a phenomenal understanding and experience of development sector. Starting out as a Civil Servant in 1991, Shri Kalra quickly realized his inner connect with the development sector. His journey since then has seen him taking senior leadership roles in UNIDO, Dr. Reddy’s Foundation and Reliance Foundation, two of India’s largest CSR Foundations. His work has made a remarkable in areas like Rural Transformation, Health, Information services and Disaster management, Livelihood Promotion and Poverty Reduction. During his seven years’ tenure with UNIDO, he pioneered the ‘cluster development’ approach in India. As programme head, he led a team responsible for Implementing ‘Cluster Development Program’ in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for development of clusters in Auto component cluster, Machine tool cluster, Foundry cluster, Floriculture cluster etc to promote livelihoods.
Shri Kalra is a sought after public speaker on issues of skilling, cluster development, cultural transformation, rural development, Not-for-Profit engagement with Govt, Policy advocacy, Corporate CSR and Ethics & Values.
Shri Kalra is currently CEO of Foundation for Economic Development (FED) which is working directly with state governments with a focus on building capacities to think through and execute reforms. FED helps in designing and running development projects in a more professional manner by incorporating the best of management and social audit practices.
SANJEEV DHAMIJA, Director
Shri Sanjeev Dhamija, 58, is a seasoned development professional with over 30 years of experience in banking and development sectors. He holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Commerce (Honours) from University of Delhi and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from AIMA, New Delhi. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai.
In his professional career spanning over 32 years in NABARD, he has worked in different positions across various Regional Offices of the Bank in developmental, supervisory and finance related functions such as, State Infrastructure Projects, Natural Resource Management, Business Initiatives, HR, Production and Developmental Credit, Finance, Audit, RFI supervision and Institutional Development.
Shri Dhamija is currently CGM-in-charge of Finance Department as also Department of Subsidiaries and Strategic Investments of NABARD at it Head Office in Mumbai.
Nirupam Mehrotra, Director
Shri. Mehrotra, MA (Economics) and M.Phil form Jawaharlal Nehru University has been a key member of the group within NABARD which analyses macro-economic changes in the rural economy and their impact upon NABARD.
Shri. Mehrotra was an active participant in the deliberations of the GOI’s Expert Group on Agricultural Indebtedness and assisted in drafting of the final report. He provided inputs to the report submitted by the Task Force on Credit Related Issues of Farmers, constituted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, 2010. He also participated in the Deliberations of the “Sub-Group of the Committee Constituted by Reserve Bank of India to Re-Examine The Existing Classification and Suggest Revised Guidelines with Regard to Priority Sector Lending Classification and Related Issues, 2012” .
His past responsibilities have included undertaking impact evaluation studies, understanding the practical challenges in strengthening supply chain for high value agriculture, quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of investments in rural infrastructure.
Shri Shaji K V, Chairman
Shri Shaji K V assumed charge as Chairman of NABFOUNDATION on 03rd March
2023. He had taken charge as Chairman, NABARD on 07 December 2022. As
Deputy Managing Director, NABARD since 21st May 2020, he was instrumental in
implementing initiatives like software based supervisory inspection, Datawarehouse, process re-engineering and improvement in the risk management
practices besides conceptualising the ambitious scheme of computerising Primary
Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS).
Before joining NABARD, he worked in Canara Bank in various capacities for 26
years. He has got extensive Board level experience for about 10 years in various
organisations viz., National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Canara HSBC
Life Insurance Company Ltd. and Canara Bank Securities Ltd., besides being the
Chairman of Kerala Gramin Bank, the then largest Regional Rural Bank of the
country, and also of NABKISAN Finance Ltd., a subsidiary of NABARD.
He has been member of many National Level Expert Committees/working groups
including Working Group on Agriculture Value Chain Finance, Expert Committee
to suggest future roadmap for RRBs, Technical Group on Social Stock Exchange,
Committee for drafting guidelines for IPO by RRBs, Committee on Cost sharing of
ATMs, etc.
Shri. Shaji is a post graduate in agriculture and holds PGDM in Public Policy from
the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad apart from Diploma in
Treasury, Investment & Risk Management. He is also a certified associate of the
Indian Institute of Banking & Finance and a NSE Certified Market Professional
(NCMP).
S. K. Dora, Director
Shri S K Dora, Chief General Manager and Principal at National Bank Staff College (NBSC), Lucknow since 01.07.2020, is a Post Graduate in Economics from Sambalpur University, Odisha & holds M.Phil. Degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. In NABARD, Mr. Dora has worked in various capacities in the last 33 years in Mumbai, HO and in ROs in Gujarat, Odisha including four years as Faculty Member in the Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and one year as Vice Principal in NBSC, Lucknow.
He has served as a member of the Governing Council of Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI). He was a member of the FICCI Task Force on Climate Change and also represented NABARD in the Task Force on Demonstrating Doubling of Farmer's Income & also on Task Force for use of Technology for Agriculture Insurance constituted by NITI Aayog, GOI. He also represented NABARD in the working group for harnessing space technology for banking services constituted by IDRBT.
Recently, he has also been nominated by NABARD as its nominee director on the board of CSC E-Governance Services India Limited (CeGSIL). His areas of specialization include farm sector policy including agri-risk mitigation, climate finance, environment and social risk management, farmer’s collectives, infrastructure finance and rural bank supervision, etc.
Shri. Bibhu Prasad Kar, Director & CEO
Shri Bibhu Prasad Kar has more than two decades of prolific experience in NABARD, primarily in the areas of Institutional Development, Credit Planning, Infrastructure Development, Financial Inclusion, Farm and Off-farm sector development, Finance & Accounts, and Information Technology. He served Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow as a faculty member and later became its Academic In-Charge. As Senior Consultant to NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS) in Odisha, he successfully led the project management team for construction of 300 dry storage structures in the Cooperative sector. He has been associated with successful implementation of NABARD’s various Natural Resource Management (NRM) interventions for climate with family / area / Cluster / community approach in tribal dominated areas of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
Shri. Kar holds the Master in Development Management (MDM) from Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila and MBA from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), Mumbai and was awarded with diploma in Treasury & Risk Management (DTIRM), and International Banking and Finance (DIBF) from the same institute. Besides, he has completed many self-paced short term courses in his area of interest from ADB Institute, Japan and Open Learning Centre (OLC) of World Bank.
Application of design thinking approach in social project management, entrepreneurship development, institutional development, Impact investment and assessment, innovative convergence model design, and value chain management continues to be his core area of interest.
Sanjeev D Rohilla, Director
Sanjeev Rohilla joined NABARD in 1992 after doing his post-graduation in Economics from Punjab University, Chandigarh. He has handled key assignments in multiple departments over the last two decades in Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Meghalaya. He has been part of multiple teams within NABARD covering fund raising, HR, credit operations, financial inclusion technology, credit planning and corporate communications. He was a key member of the team which launched the first ever Aadhar enabled Kisan Credit Cards to Cooperative Banks and RRBs. Micro finance, credit planning, designing of innovative convergence models and organizational communication have been his areas of deep interest which steered his appointment as the first CEO of NABFOUNDATION. Under his able guidance, the Foundation was able to implement some innovative projects creating livelihood opportunities, promoting collective enterprises, gender equality, providing clean water, health and well being etc. Presently he leads the Department for Data Management, Analytics and Business Intelligence in NABARD where his role centers around setting up NABARD's first Data Warehouse alongwith taking up multiple other data analytic related projects.
Harsh Deshmukh, Vice President
Harsh has worked in the Farm Sector Development Department at NABARD Head Office for a period of 1.5 Years and was a part of a team looking after Promotion and FPOs. He is an Agricultural Engineering graduate from JNKVV, Jabalpur and postgraduate in Aquacultural Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. Young and dynamic, Harsh brings the required raw energy and need for speed to the newly formed subsidiary.
Aditi Shukla,Company Secretary
Aditi Shukla is a commerce and law graduate and an Associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi and certified CSR professional. She possesses more than 5 years of experience in the field of legal, secretarial, internal audit and in welfare work. She has worked for both listed and unlisted companies.
Manash J Rabha, Assistant Vice President
Manash is a post graduate in Management from IIM Shillong and in Computer Applications from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli. Prior to joining NABFOUNDATION, he worked with corporates and development sectors for more than 8 years. He has vast experience in various domains such as IT Management, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), HR management and Business Development and his real asset is his ability to take a deep and dispassionate look at each project with a fairly stern face.
Sudha Varghese, Chief Financial Officer
Sudha holds a post-graduation degree in Commerce from Mumbai University. Having 30 years of experience in various functional departments of NABARD, she has garnered a deep understanding of the agriculture and rural sector in India. She strives to be a perfectionist and is a stickler of rules. She thrives on interactions, her forte being excellent interpersonal relationship and co-ordination skills.
Dr. Nitish Ghadage, Senior Project Assistant
Dr. Nitish comes with over six years of experience in CSR and sustainability. He has held Manager roles in various organizations in the development sector. Nitish aims to continuously learn and grow and values diversity, equity, and inclusion in all interactions. His goal is to understand and build important partnerships that are needed to move from competition to collaboration.
Dr.Nitish holds a Ph.D. in horticultural science from Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari with a keen interest in Agricultural Research, extension, CSR & sustainability.
Siddhesh S. Surve, Senior Project Assistant
Siddhesh carries an overall experience of 10 years. He has worked extensively in the field of wildlife research and conservation, implementing, monitoring and evaluating livelihood projects and Corporate Social Responsibility. He enjoys working closely with communities and is good at mobilizing them. He is also well versed in liaising and building a rapport with stakeholders and networking. His role at NABFOUNDATION is ensuring smooth implementation of the on-going livelihood projects and developing new and innovative projects for convergence with entities having similar interests.
He holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Mumbai. Being an avid writer he has four publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and eight publications in popular magazines, to his credit. His interest in photography has won him an award for his click of flamingos in urban habitat at the Srusti Mitra Awards 2013.
Kedar K Rane, Sr Project Assistant -IT
Kedar comes with 6+ years of experience in IT industry & has handled key roles in various companies.
Currently Part of NABFOUNDATION, He is responsible for the Developing technology- based solution for the NABFOUNDATION & Rural India.
Tech enthusiast, Coder, Strategist & Mentor with the ability to solve Business problems to an Execution Level. A technology tactician who has successfully led more than 100+ teams of Developers to establish products from scratch which eventually got selected in several socio-purpose hackathons, incubators & accelerators. He is also a part of the community which teaches technology to students of rural India & Mentor for the Smart India Hackathon. Being a active Contributor to society , he has won 2 national level competition & 5 International Competition for the social Cause. He is a Computer Engineer from Mumbai University & Certified Master in Blockchain technology from IIT-Kharagpur.
Emaran Emam Tiwale, Project Assistant
Emaran is a hard-working, committed, and energetic individual who has spent the last 1.5 years working with several village level institutions across the country. In this time, he has directed his energy towards bringing about significant ground-level changes through his ideation and working. Livelihood generation, inclusion, and institution and capacity building, are some areas where his core strength lies. Emaran has pursued a Masters in Development from Azim Premji University and Bachelors in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai.
Vikrant Bhosale, Assistant
Vikrant’s unpretentious, down-to-earth demeanor and forever eager-to-help attitude keeps the team going through the grind of the day. A hardworking and ambitious young man, he is currently pursuing his post-graduation and uses his free hours in getting additional degrees and learning new skills.
