Donate NowOur India Team
In 2011, we set up our partner organisation in Kolkata in order to manage our operations in India. Shivia India, known locally as Nirdhan (www.nirdhan.org), is a Section 8 company (NGO), with permanent FCRA status enabling Shivia UK to transfer funds at any time.
Our two organisations work in close harmony and share the same aims and objectives in all that we do.
Nirdhan is governed by a board of five directors (trustees). Click on the name to read a short profile:
- Vasant Subramanyan: Director & Chairman
- Shouryabrata Mandal: Director
- Amitabh Rai: Director
- Sundaresan Radhakrishnan: Director
- Rajlakshmi Syam: Director
- Krupakaran Satish David: Director
- Nupur Vaswani: Director
Nirdhan also has a small management team based in Kolkata who are responsible for our programmes:
- Joe Rao: General Manager
- Chandrani Banerjee: Head of Livelihood Programmes
- Aloke Saha: Head of Finance
- Habib Reza: Operations Consultant
The field team is made up of five Field Supervisors and 36 Livelihood Service Providers who deliver toolkits and training to our beneficiaries. They are all recruited from the villages where we work so speak the local language, know the communities there and, most importantly, are trusted and respected by our farmers.
