She is the Co-founder of Pahal Financial Services Private Limited, AHMEDABAD, a first-generation entrepreneur, a mentor to many startups is from Ahmedabad, is working in the area of microfinance and enterprise lending. purvi purvi
She has a prolific experience of over 27 years in the areas of BFSI-(Banking and Financial Services Industry ) and Telecom having worked in some of the most reputed organizations of the country like Kotak Mahindra, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Vodafone India. She has very diverse exposure across the entire spectrum of Corporate and Retail Banking, Consumer Finance, Stock Broking, Distribution, and Customer Service. For her pursuits, she was awarded one of the “leading women in telecom industry” during 2010-11. She was recently recognized as Top 10 women in Finance – 2020. She is currently serving on the board of an affordable housing finance company.
She is currently undergoing a program run by Stanford Seed India and has received a scholarship. purvi purvi purvi purvi
Kalpana Chaurasia
Kalpana joined Sonata Finance Pvt Ltd in the year 2007. She joined as a BDA and promoted to the post of Branch Manager. This was an outcome of her hard work, persistence, and dealing with the fear of being a lady.
She is the eldest of all children to her parents. She belonged to a very conservative family which was led by a responsible father. Her father was working to serve the family but there was not enough money to handle the expenses of the family properly.
When Kalpana was 24 years old, her husband got ill and lost his consciousness. Kalpana was having a family of four including her two kids as well.
Things got worse as there was no earning member in the family. Her in-laws were not so supportive; however, it was the time when Kalpana decided to take charge and earn bread and butter for her family. While working in a school, Kalpana was introduced to one of Sonata’s employee and she availed a loan for herself to meet up the expenses of her family.
Preeti Bhaduria
Preeti is working as a “Customer Relationship Officer” at Swaroop branch (Kanpur). She joined Ujjivan as a fresher and she is extremely good at adopting Ujjivan work culture. She is managing 350 approx borrowers.
She was very active during the lockdown. She helped customers to protection from Covide-19. She had shared multiple videos on social distancing, the uses of the mask, and hand sanitization to her customer. With the help of Preeti, their borrower was able to collect payment from their customer digitally and she educated their borrower to pay EMI digitally to Ujivan and other lenders.
Kanya Vishwakarma
Kanya Vishwakarma belongs to the small village of Ranipur, Urwa bazaar block, Gorakhpur district. She joined Utkarsh in Sep. 2013 as a trainee credit officer. During the training period, she learned about how microfinance is helping socially & economically deprived women in improving their quality of life. She realized during her work that women are willing to work hard to raise their standard of living however are unable to do the same due to financial challenges.
She has conducted various financial literacy programs for rural households to educate them on various financial products and security measures to be adopted during a financial transaction. Her contribution to financial inclusion is admirable. Currently, she is managing approx. 26 cr. Portfolio of 10 thousand clients. As branch manager, she is leading 25 women employees at the Girdharganj branch of Gorakhpur district.
Uzma Saleem
She is associated with Saija as HRBP(Human Resource Business Partner) and Talent Acquisition Manager for Uttar Pradesh, She joined Saija as a Management Trainee in the year 2018 and after 3 months confirmed as Assistant Manager –HR and further promoted to Deputy Manager, She is responsible for the management of employee life cycle of more than 200 staff strength in UP. She is deeply involved in balancing gender diversity in the workforce. She also takes care of manpower planning and allocation as per business projections. She did excellent work in bringing discipline in UP branches which helps in the growth of Quality manpower and Quality business and conducted multiple employee engagement activities. She did excellent work to reduce the attrition in UP Branches. We thank her for the valuable contribution.
Neha Singh
She is born and brought up in the city of temple, Varanasi. Being eldest among her two siblings, one sister, and one brother, she was responsible, generous, and very sensible and this part of her life encouraged her to do for people.
After completion of her MBA from the University of Lucknow, she joined Sonata Finance Pvt Ltd with the motive to contribute towards women empowerment. In the last 8 years of her career, she left a remarkable footprint to inspire her colleagues and other stakeholders. One of her major contributions is shown in implementing a women-friendly policy at Sonata and bringing the concept of the full female branch.
Apart from the association with Sonata her keen interest in empowering women led her to create a virtual platform for women to learn from each other. Motivating women of all background like a banker, Professional, housewife, the teacher even the poor girls to join this free self-learning and growing platform and building a culture where one support other and inspires to be independent for future challenges.
Sanghamitra Samanta
Sanghamitra is 24 years old, B.Tech in mineral engineering, and full of confidence. She joined Fusion 2.5 years ago which allowed her to work towards the empowerment of women at the grass-roots level. She feels proud of being a part of the microfinance sector because it provides her an opportunity to contribute to the entrepreneurial success of underprivileged women. To improve the livelihood opportunities of clients, Sanghamitra has helped around 15 clients to take admission in tailoring courses in a nearby tailoring center. She has proved to be a good leader since her college time. She had formed a group of friends who used to help the elderly in bank-related matters. Being an achiever in her education she values the importance of education for girl children and motivates clients to educate their daughters. Considering the economic condition of some of the clients, she took the onus of giving tuition to around nine children in her spare time.
Divya Tripathi
Having more than 15 years of experience in Human Resource Management in the area of people management, performance management, training & development, various HR software handling, statutory compliance, recruitment & selection, process making & implementation, our Micro Power Girl, Ms. Divya joined Margdarshak in November, 2016 at the designation Assistant Vice President. A single mother of two children, she is a very strong personality who is managing her home and work with utter sincerity. On one hand she was introducing the benchmarked practices in Human Resource, like Employee Engagement Practices, including Behavioral Trainings, making ‘Work from Home’ ahead in times of COVID. On other hand, SPM vertical was conceptualized under her supervision and it focused on the wellbeing and development of Employees and Clients as well. The idea was to engage and develop the Clients and Employees in activities which brings a ray of hope in their lives. At the same time, she was going through a tough time in her personal life. But she managed both the lives in a much matured way. While at one moment she was attending the Office Calls & Meetings, on the other she was teaching her daughters to complete their homework. Currently, she is heading the HR & Social Performance Management vertical as Deputy Vice President of the organization, to give strategic direction for building a respectable reputation for the company by engaging the Employees & Clients at the same time. purvi
