Shri C P Mohan

Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from Institute for Rural Management, Anand; B.Sc. (Agri & AH) from G B Pant University for Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Presently  a General Manager in NABARD, he joined the Bank in 1986 and has held various positions like Officer in Charge of NABARD, Meghalaya, Faculty Member and Rural Channel Coordinator at College of Agricultural Banking, RBI, Pune, and District Development Manager. He has worked in   several States including Assam, Meghalaya, and Jharkhand. Among his major assignments is the support to the RBI’s Committee on Micro finance and Rural Credit which recommended the Business Correspondent and Facilitator models and the creation of an IT Fund for financial inclusion initiatives. He participated in several studies and projects like the "Study on MIS of Urban Cooperative Banks", research project named “Towards Ensuring financial services to the poor" in collaboration with Reading University, U.K.  He has written several papers such as Challenges of Lending to Agricultural Sector, Agricultural Agenda in Inclusive Growth, Information Bureau for Microfinance in India, Micro finance and RRBs:  The best fit, Cooperative Governance: The Case for a New Paradigm, Products, Processes and Institutions for Financial Inclusion: Experiences from Brazil and South Africa and Role of Socially Responsible Banks in Sustainable Development of the Poor.  He has represented NABARD on the Board of two Regional Rural Banks. Prior to joining NABARD, he has worked with the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Anand which markets the AMUL and SAGAR brands and in the Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala.