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Dear Members,
Indian economy is in turmoil due to the disruption that Covid 1 & 2 had created both in rural and urban India. However, this pandemic has made us more adaptable, agile and helped us to rediscover our hidden talents. Things that we never tried earlierwere forced on to us and we found better ways of doing things.
During the last Financial Year, we received negligible funds from our partners but that didn’t dampen our spirits nor did we lose hope. Rather, we charted out our own way of funding to clients – stressing more emphasis on collections so that after meeting our repayment obligations, we can lend to our clients. We shifted to ‘Low Touch’ from ‘High Touch’ mode of digital collection so that Covid protocol was not breached.
During 2020-21, business of the Microfinance Sector in India had slowed down due to prolonged lock down. Our performance was also not satisfactory. Our road-map for the coming years is to wind-up micro-finance activities and to repay all the loans that are due from the Funding agencies. We had already paid-up our dues of SBI and they are now extending financial assistance to our Company, GrameenShakti. All other pending loans had already been cleared off barring FWWB, BGVB & SIDBI. Total Debt funding outstanding (from all sources- Banks, FIs, etc)as on 31 March 2021 Rs. 3,72,58,532/- . InspiteofapplyingseveraltimestotheBGVB for transferofportfoliotoourCompany they aredilly-dallyingand is reluctant to grant fresh loan to our Company.
Now SMGBK has limited its microfinance activities to only two branches, Gangarampur & Patirajpur. SMGBK is focusing more on multiple social welfare schemes as part of its social initiative. Various projects that are continuing by the Society are Safe Arsenic-free Drinking water project called 'Amritabari', Women empowerment project (Micro Finance), Solar light project, Education development project & water & sanitation project (WATSAN) etc.
Solar Lights
Society for Model Gram Bikash Kendra is promoting the use of renewable energy by distributing solar lights among its beneficiaries in a subsidized rate through our branches. We have provided loans to nearly 4000 families of our borrowers to purchase solar lights for their children's education and other purposes.
Water
Water is the most essential component of life and is vital for sustenance but unfortunately many districts of West Bengal are inflicted with Arsenic. Our aim is to provide Safe Drinking Water to the arseni prone areas. HUL had extended their helping hand in making 'Arsenic-free Drinking Water Project called 'Amritabari'' a grand success. This water is being used by the tudents of our School as also by the poor villagers of surrounding villages.
Sanitation
Poor sanitation and defecating habits in open places, a common scenario in remote villages,cause health hazards and hygienic problems. Keeping this in mind, we have constructed nearly 2000 toilets in villages of Nadia district in collaboration with Friends of Women's World Banking (FWWB). We have also provided sanitation loan to rural people in an effort to motivate them to construct toilets. Further, under 'WATSAN' (water & sanitation) project we had also built sanitary latrines for the villagers of Bengal & Bihar.
Education Project
In Social Welfare Activity, our dream project is our residential cum day school - “Ramakrishna Sarada Missionary Vidyapith” at Purnanagar in Nadia district. Due to closure of educational institutions as per the directives of the State Government, there had been a decrease in the admission of students t our school. Further, there is sharp drop in payment of Tuition Fees by the students. Experienced and scholarly teachers are working hard and taking online classes so that our students don’t suffer due to closure of physical classes and ensure that our students score high marks in their final examinations. In spite of financial stress, we paid due salaries to all of our School staffs.
Ganesh Chandra Modak
Secretary
Society For Model Gram Bikash Kendra
With a view to address the issue of health hazards arising from the use of contaminated..
Poor sanitation and absence of sanitary latrine and defecating in open place by most of..
The organization emphasizes on quality education of children. It is providing scholarships to meritorious children..
GBK organizes medical and eye check-up camps in rural areas where it has its branches. Health services are generally..
Women Empowerment “Women Empowerment” is an often used word used for topics as varied as self..
Microfinance Basic principle of lending states that “right amount of credit disbursed at appropriate..
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income."
Muhammad Yunus
"The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. "
Jeffrey Sachs
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
Natalie Portman
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