Financial Inclusion and Skoch Skoch Development Foundation was set up about a year and half back to
look at poverty issues. We have had two interventions directly in this
time period. One is we have adopted a little village called Sangram
in Arunachal Pradesh at Indo-China border. This is inhabited by
Nishi tribals. It is a subsistence economy where we are supporting
a school. The second intervention which we have is in Mohand in
Saharanpur where we bring similar educational intervention with the
Ban Gujjars. Ban Gujjars are migratory shepherds, and when they
travel their children can get educated so we are trying to get a
mobile school that travels with them and continue their education. So
essentially the whole idea behind setting up the Skoch Development
Foundation was (a) to create a think tank which gets into policy issues
and (b) also to have a first hand feel of what the felt needs of the
poor are and what is it that we can really do to alleviate some of that. more
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Dr. K C Chakrabarty, CMD, Punjab National Bank (left) and Mr. Montek Singh
Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (right) while releasing the
book entitled ‘Financial Inclusion’
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National Study on Financial Inclusion |
Power Panel on Speeding Financial Inclusion was organized during the 20th Skoch Summit held in Mumbai. Panelists from left to right: Mr Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communications & IT; H Krishnamurthy, Principal Research Scientist, IISc - Bangalore; Mr Anurag Gupta, CEO, Zero-Mass Foundation; Dr C Rangarajan, Hon’ble Member, Chairman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; Mr S Sridhar, Chairman & Managing Director, Central Bank & National Housing Bank; Mr Hari Sankaran, Managing Director, IL&FS; Mr Sameer Kochhar, Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch. more
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Power Panel on Financial Inclusion for Urban Poor
was organized
during the 20th Skoch Summit held in Mumbai. Panelists from left to right:Mr Justin Oliver, Executive Director, Centre for Micro Finance - IFMR; Mr M Narendra, Executive Director, Bank of India; Mr Mahesh Jain, CEO, Integra Micro; H Krishnamurthy, Principal Research Scientist, IISc - Bangalore; Mr Sanjay Bhargava, Chief Mentor, Eko India Financial Services Private Ltd; Mr Sameer Kochhar, Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch; Ms K J Udeshi, Chairperson, Banking Codes and Standards Board of India; Mr M Ramadoss, CMD, Oriental Insurance Co Ltd; Dr Deepak B Phatak, IIT-B, Mumbai; Mr Anurag Gupta, CEO, Zero-Mass Foundation; Mr S K Kale, General Manager, NABARD. more |
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