Development Tracks RTC

Private Sector company, New Delhi, India

Executive Director Development Tracks in Research Training and Consultancy

Responsibilities included:
Total operational management and direction of the company in India involving capacity building, research and evaluation of holistic projects in social development and sectoral projects on basic health, primary education, community based rehabilitation of people with disabilities, food security, off-farm income generation, and poverty alleviation. Clients included ADB, the World bank, UNDP, Care-India, Government of India and State Governments

Action Aid

International Development Organisation, India

Country Director

Responsibilities included total management and direction of ACTIONAID India's programme in India involving:

1. One Central Office, three Zonal Offices, seven Regional Offices and over 375 project partners spread all over the country
2. Eigthy-Six Long Term Development Partnerships - Integrated social development Projects, and Community Based Rehabilitation Projects for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities - spread in over 19 States in India .
3. Over 175 short term development partnerships - projects, spread all over India, in basic health, primary education, community based rehabilitation of people with disabilities, food security, off-farm income generation, research and advocacy for poverty alleviation and capacity building.
4. Servicing donor communities in UK, Spain, Italy and Greece, involving over 45000 individual supporters
5. Changed the focus of the organization from empowerment of the poor to Rights based Approach to development and initiated the Right To Food Campaign as an entry point for demonstrating that a paradigm based on right to development works

Action Aid

India & China Additional Charge

In-Charge of China Programme (concurrent charge)

Responsibilities included:

1. Evaluation of the country situation as being suitable for non-state development intervention
2. Survey the secondary data and determine the areas to work
3. Selectiing location of interventions and development area(s)
4. Negotiate with the National Government the agreement to establish Representative Office and commence work
5. Negotiate with sub-national Governments (provincial, county and district) relating to conditions under which Action Aid would work
6. Negotiate with Governments at different levels to secure Governmental share of the Programme Costs
7. Select partner Ministries, Organizations and Institutions in the new countries and also select personnel and building their capacity
8. Develop the programme, including setting up systems of appraisal, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation
9. The interventions in China involved capacity building and advocacy for participatory planning for village development by actual preparation of village plans using PRA and demonstrating their implementability to the people and different tiers og Government and Institutions involved in development

National Academy of Administration, Govt. of India

Mussoorie, India

Professor Planning / Economics and Faculty Co-ordinator,
Centre for Micro-Planning and Regional Studies

Responsibilities included:

1. Teaching Officers of the higher echelons of Indian Civil Services and conducting research, in economics, development economics, Panchayati Raj Institutions (local level self governance), micro-planning for social development and poverty alleviation. This involved running case studies, leading syndicates, guiding term papers, facilitating field studies and handling counselor groups
2. Leading project teams and managing large projects in development, training of Officers in Indian Civil Services
3. Designing, implementing and monitoring of social development and employment generation programmes
4. Developing materials in publishable form for training in Multi-Level Planning
5. Conducting Training of Trainers on behalf of the Government and other institutions
6. Editing of quarterly Journal The Administrator (New-Delhi: Wiley Eastern)

National Academy of Administration

Mussoorie, India

Advisor Decentralization Planning Unit

Responsibilities included:

1. Leading the project team in drawing up Micro-level Plans and advising State Governments on different aspects of social developments. Training the officers of top Civil Services of India on income and non-income poverty eradication, development economics and micro-level planning for social development
2. Action research on developmental issues and advising State Governments and preparing perspective plans for development, poverty alleviation, etc.
3. Help in developing manuals for training in micro-level planning
4. Conduct international/national level seminars, conferences and workshops for capacity building and seeking policy changes

United Bank of India, Kolkata (wholly owned by the Government of India)

Kolkata, India

Executive Secretary to the Chairman, Managing Director and the Board of Directors

Responsibilities included:

1. Monitoring the activities of nearly 1250 Offices and Branches of the Bank throughout the country, with regard to rural credit planning, rural credit servicing for poverty alleviation programmes and rural credit disbursement
2. Monitoring on behalf of the Chairman and Managing Director, invocation of credit guarantees, business expansion and general administration
3. Handing down the decisions of the Board of Directors down the line and monitoring their execution and providing feedback to the Board for further direction
4. Assisting the Chairman and Managing Director in the discharge of his function, in such areas as policy making and countrywide operations

United Bank of India, Kolkata (wholly owned by the Government of India)

Kolkata, India

Development Banker in different capacities including Chief Officer and Chief Manager

Responsibilities included:

1. Credit sanctioning and disbursement
2. Credit proposal evaluation
3. Managing foreign exchange operation and total operational control of an exceptionally large branch of a major nationalized bank of India
4. Career path planning, training of the personnel including developing the annual training plan of the bank
5. Matters relating to policy making with regard to promotion and service conditions of officers