Manjari Corner
Under the Entrepreneurship Development Program, a total of 75 entrepreneurs participated in the 2 batches of 3 day EDP training at Jhajjar location. Women from our Uthori Jagriti Kala Manch delivered a powerful nukkad natak on women empowerment at Shilpgram and the Fatehsagar Flower Show attended by over one lakh visitors. Our all-girls Manjari Football Club's debuted at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Football League against boys' teams. Kumari Aarti, Goalkeeper, awarded with "Player of the Match" on Day 1 and Kumari Damini named "Player of the Match" on Day 2. A two-day training program was organised at Dariba location focusing on capacity building, teamwork and field skills for the group sakhis. Financial literacy training was conducted in Bhaldia, which included money management, savings, investment strategies, and maintaining income-expenditure balance. Information was also provided about Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana.

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Mr. Ajay Kumar Tank

Program Officer

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Ajay is a senior grassroots development professional with more than 20 years of experience. He
has gained deep expertise working with the underprivileged communities, women institutions,
livelihoods, integrated natural resource management and mobilizing rural communities. He
received a degree in agriculture engineering from MPUAT-Udaipur and MBA in Rural
Management from JNU - Jaipur. He was also engaged with PRADAN, Ambuja Cement
Foundation, Gramin Vikas Trust, CECOEDECON and CTAE (MPUAT- Udaipur) in the leading
position. Currently, he is leading and managing the operations of Sakhi project at Chittorgarh
and micro enterprise development (MED) program in the Chittorgarh, Mewar region, which is
one of the most backward regions in the country.
He is based out at Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. He is incharge of donor relations, project
management and team management in that region as a program officer. He is extending his
support to the Manjari Foundation for the formulation of new proposals, budgets and process
designing. He also extends his technical support to Sakhi Utpadan Samit (SUS) at Chittorgarh,
Sakhi Food and Hastshilp Samiti (SFHS) at Rudrapur, Uttarakhand and Upaya Handloom
Private Limited at Chittorgarh.