Rita Soni, Senior Vice President and Country Head - Responsible Banking, YES BANK
Rita Soni
YES BANK
June 2009

In an interview with Sabyasachi Kashyap from CSDMS, Rita Soni talks about YES BANK’s foray into financial inclusion by banking and microfinancing through the Internet, ATMs, debit cards and mobile channels.

ePanchayat in Orissa
R N Dash
Orissa Panchayati Raj Department
April 2009

In an interview with Ritu Srivastava of the i4d team, R N Dash talks about the ePanchayat initiatives of the Orissa Panchayati Raj Department

ICIMOD: For mountains and people
Andreas Schild
Andreas Schild, Director General, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
March 2009

Andreas Schild is a development specialist with over 30 years of experience in designing, planning, executing and monitoring co-operation programmes mainly in sustainable natural resource management and rural development. Though his long-term assignments and multiple missions in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, he is familiar with the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region.

National Action Plan on Climate Change
Dr Akhilesh Gupta
Adviser to the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
March 2009

Akhilesh Gupta, with a Doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences from IIT, Delhi joined the India Meteorological Department in 1985 and is currently an Advisor to the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

Interview: Sujatha Raju, Director, SAI SEVA
Sujatha Raju
SAI SEVA
January 2009

Sujatha Raju, Director of SAI SEVA, a BPO with a vision. SAI SEVA’s revolutionary business model of simultaneously providing employment to the needy by moving jobs done in cities to villages and thereby offering lowered costs to the clients was conceived by Sujatha.