Manjari Corner
State level workshop on financial literacy inassociation with UN Women and Rang De, organised in Jhansi. 12 of our Sakhi members from Debari have successfully started their new journey at BPCL Coco Petrol Pump in Udaipur. Mega Bank Credit Linkage camp organized in Kalinagar village, Rudrapur, where ₹1.25 crores were disbursed in loans to 101 SHGs. Successfully concluded a 4-day camp on Avartansheel Kheti that brought together farmers from Tikamgarh, Lalitpur, Mandla, Datia, Udaipur and Nepal. Two of our incredible women, Farsana from Ajmer pickle unit, and Yasmeen Bano from Baran, has been honored with the 3rd BW Disrupt Social Impact Leader Award and the prestigious Lakhpati Award from the Rural Development Ministry, respectively. Succesfully conducted a two training session on

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Program Officer

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Ajay is a senior grassroots development professional with more than 20 years of experience. He
has gained deep expertise working with the underprivileged communities, women institutions,
livelihoods, integrated natural resource management and mobilizing rural communities. He
received a degree in agriculture engineering from MPUAT-Udaipur and MBA in Rural
Management from JNU - Jaipur. He was also engaged with PRADAN, Ambuja Cement
Foundation, Gramin Vikas Trust, CECOEDECON and CTAE (MPUAT- Udaipur) in the leading
position. Currently, he is leading and managing the operations of Sakhi project at Chittorgarh
and micro enterprise development (MED) program in the Chittorgarh, Mewar region, which is
one of the most backward regions in the country.
He is based out at Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. He is incharge of donor relations, project
management and team management in that region as a program officer. He is extending his
support to the Manjari Foundation for the formulation of new proposals, budgets and process
designing. He also extends his technical support to Sakhi Utpadan Samit (SUS) at Chittorgarh,
Sakhi Food and Hastshilp Samiti (SFHS) at Rudrapur, Uttarakhand and Upaya Handloom
Private Limited at Chittorgarh.