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Participants of the Roundtable and their Organizations
Tara Nair, Associate Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, co-author,
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2014
, Ahmedabad; Ajay Tankha, Independent Expert, co-author,
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, New Delhi;
Vijayalakshmi Das, Chairperson ACCESS Development Services and Managing Director, Ananya Finance for Inclusive
Growth Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; Pallavi Sen, Associate Vice President, MFIN, Gurgaon; Vipin Sharma, CEO, Access
Development Services, New Delhi; Sachin Hirani, Asia Regional Manager, Microfinance Information Exchange,
Hyderabad; P.C. Sabharwal, Director, Director World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises, NOIDA, UP;
Rohit Kumar, Manager (Skill Development), World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises, NOIDA, UP;
Shweta Banerjee, CGAP, World Bank, New Delhi; N. Jeyaseelan, Chief Executive Officer, Hand in Hand India,
Chennai; Amit Mittal, Lead Analyst, Asia Region, Microfinance Information Exchange, Hyderabad; Ruski Mahal,
Program Manager, Livelihoods, American India Foundation, New Delhi; Smita Premchander, SAMPARK, Bangalore;
Jai Pal Singh, Independent Resource Person—Microfinance, Jaipur; Rabindra Kumar Singh, CMD, National
Scheduled Castes Development and Finance Corporation (NSFDC), Delhi; Satish Chandra Upadhyay, Advisor,
National Cooperative Development Corporation, New Delhi; Sushant Tripathy, Inclusive and Social Banking, YES
BANK, Mumbai; Deepak Verma, Joint Director, National Saving Institute, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi; A.K.
Chauhan, Director, National Saving Institute, Ministry of Finance, Nagpur; Leonore Gruenberg, GIZ, New Delhi;
Madhu Saran, Addl. COO—North and North-East India and Country Head—Myanmar, Hand in Hand India,
New Delhi; Madhawi Bisht, America India Foundation, New Delhi; Praniti Maini, America India Foundation, New
Delhi; Sourav Roy, NMMU, NRLM, New Delhi; Shilpi Neil Shastri, IFC, New Delhi; Anoop Mittra, Margdarshak,
Lucknow; Shruti Gonsalves, Chief Executive Officer, SEWA GrihRin Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi; ArindomDatta, Rabo
India Finance, Senior Director and Head, Rural & Development Banking/Advisory, Gurgaon; Rishab Sood, Rabo
India Finance, Gurgaon; Meera Mishra, Country Coordinator IFAD, IFAD, New Delhi; Anoop Kaul, Basix, New
Delhi; C Ramesh Rao, AGM, NSFDC, New Delhi; Prateek Tandon, VP, Inclusive and Social Banking, Yes Bank,
Delhi; Naveen Das, Solution Exchange, UNDP, New Delhi; Ramesh Jalan, Solution Exchange, UNDP, New Delhi;
Ramkrishna Biswal, Project Director, Sewa Bharat, Delhi; Radhika Agashe, Executive Director, ACCESS ASSIST,
New Delhi; Navin Anand, Resource Person and Moderator, Solution Exchange, UNDP, New Delhi; Mohammad
Anas, Solution Exchange, UNDP, New Delhi; Amit Arora, Lead Advisor, GIZ-NABARD, New Delhi; Suneira Rana,
Associate, CGAP, World Bank, New Delhi; Amit Gupta, Principal Advisor, Smart Campaign, Bangalore.
Opening Remarks and a Brief About the
Inclusive Finance India Report 2014
—Vijayalakshmi Das,
Chairperson, Access Development Services
Giving the opening remarks, Vijayalakshmi Das, Chairperson, Access Development Services welcomed all the
participants and thanked UNDP and Microfinance Community, Solution Exchange for all kind of knowledge support.
She appreciated the diversity of stakeholders present for the workshop.
Vijayalakshmi Das mentioned that the report is going to become
Inclusive Finance India Report
from
State of the
Sector Report
with greater focus on Financial Inclusion. She further added that this change is going to increase the
content and scope of the report to manifolds and conveyed her best wishes to the authors to come up with a different
report this year covering all the excluded segments.
Making note of a news item in
Mint
on Financial Inclusion Conclave results, she discussed about the subject of
the news item on the handicap of the formal banking structure in reaching out to the poor. She added that some
MFIs claim that they can do financial inclusion much better than banks. She emphasized that the demand side of the
financial inclusion still needs to be understood by us and it would be slightly premature to claim that we have a solution
to Financial Inclusion.
