Annual Report 2020

Partnerships Create Impact

Vision
We envision every person across rural India empowered to lead a more
secure and prosperous life

Mission
Our mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve
positive social, economic and environmental change across rural
India.

What We Do
Good Rural Governance empowers rural citizens and village-level institutions
for their active engagement in local governance. The program channelizes local
forces for collective action by focusing on mass awareness, capacity building
and leadership development.

Water Management mitigates water scarcity and water-related issues by
applying appropriate technologies designed to secure and sustain local
water supplies for drinking, household and agricultural purposes. It helps vil-
lagers improve sanitation and manage wastewater in their schools, homes and
community environment.

Agricultural Development grows rural prosperity by training small
landholding farmers, particularly women, on scientific agricultural practices to
help them increase crop yields, conserve water and improve soil fertility.

Community Media empowers individuals and communities through
information-based communication, community radio and mobile
technologies. It helps champion the voices of most isolated and vulnerable
populations by raising citizen awareness and providing a platform for
expression.

Rural Research enables strengthening development initiatives through
research. The program engages in participatory research, impact
measurement, and interactive dialogue to inform actions and disseminate
knowledge.

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Looking back at 2019–20, I feel a great sense of achievement, no matter how large or small the
endeavor, our goals are being met. Sehgal Foundation has been making a positive impact in rural
communities for more than two decades. We have reached more than 2.5 million people in 980 villages
in eight states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and
Karnataka, and we are beginning expansion into another two states: Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. As a
rural development NGO, we design and implement rural development interventions to address the needs
of communities in rural India in the critical areas of water security, food security, social justice, and the
empowerment of women and schoolchildren.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges and roadblocks to development. Some
communities and countries have been hit harder than the others, but the threats to the safety of the
vulnerable and marginalized have required concerted efforts to bring everyone together to do
everything possible to combat this worldwide threat. The Sehgal Foundation teams’ response to
COVID-19 was immediate, and people were mobilized and working with communities in rural areas across
our footprint states.

Vital support from our partners in the corporate, private, government, and social sectors, made it
possible for our teams to work with village-level committees, panchayats, and individual community
leaders on COVID-19 prevention to protect each other, spread accurate and important health
information, and build greater resilience. This work gave us a lead in filling gaps of communication about
the virus and addressing the concerns and queries of villagers. Community radio Alfaz-e-Mewat played a
key role and continues to spread awareness and updated information. Our Citizen Information and
Support Centre (CISC) answered calls from villagers and provided information about government
initiatives so that those in greatest need still had access to their entitled services. The teams facilitated
safety measures in partnership with community members, such as village sanitization with spray
disinfectants, and ongoing work to stitch and distribute face masks locally within the villages.

This Annual Report 2019–20 describes the results of our sustainable programs for managing water
resources, increasing agricultural productivity, strengthening rural governance, and transforming the lives
of schoolchildren through our programs on Water Management, Agriculture Development, Good Rural
Governance, and Transform Lives one school at a time. Each program includes women’s empowerment
and gender equity as a cross-cutting goal. All this work was carried out alongside our COVID-19 relief
work and ongoing research, webinars, trainings and engagement events conducted by the teams.

Aligning our work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Sehgal Foundation teams
will continue to work with a renewed vision to serve distressed communities and help villages overcome
the continued COVID challenges related to food scarcity, water scarcity, village governance needs, and
farmer livelihoods.

Suri Sehgal
Founder and Chairman



ACHIEVEMENTS AT A GLANCE

S M Sehgal Foundation (Sehgal Foundation) has been working since 1999 to improve the quality of life of
rural communities in India. As a rural development NGO, established as a public, charitable trust, Sehgal
Foundation has a skilled and dedicated team that creates sustainable programs to address rural India’s
most pressing needs: water security, food security, and social justice, with emphasis on the empowerment
of women and children. The team works alongside communities to better manage their water resources,
increase their agricultural productivity, strengthen their rural governance, and transform the lives of-
schoolchildren so they have a more promising future.

With more than two decades of sustainable rural development work, Sehgal Foundation is present in
eight states reaching to 2.5 million people across India, so far, across rural India with activities underway
for expansion to two more states.

Cumulative achievements addressing water security, food security, and social justice include:
• 11,668 village leadership trainings
• 28,916 community leaders trained
• 75 check dams constructed
• 66 ponds developed and/or rejuvenated
• 140 schools provided with rainwater harvesting structures
• 31,545 crop demonstrations improved farm practices
• 807 acres covered with drip/sprinkler irrigation
• 11,665 people benefited through household water filtration technology: the JalKalp biosand filter.
• 13-hours community radio broadcast daily to over 225 villages served as a lifeline to the “last mile”
during COVID-19 pandemic.

Note: Data as of March 31, 2020

Water Management

Farmer Gopalappa from village Aninganahalli doubled his profits after applying silt in cultivation of ragi.
Silt application has reduced the need for fertilizers and the lower input cost has generated better saving
without compromising on soil nourishment. Gopalappa’s previous season’s yield was seven sacks and this
year, after applying silt, he got sixteen sacks of ragi.

Silt is the eroded top layer of soil deposited in the nearest water body. Although nutrient rich, it
accumulates at the base of the lake, shrinks its size, and reduces its water-holding capacity. These water
bodies are generally lakes, locally referred to as water tanks.

In the villages of Kolar, Karnataka—Aninganahalli, Halepalya, Obatti and Kempasandra, a total of 176,641
cubic meters of silt has been excavated from the tank bed, restoring 341,064 cubic meters of water
storage capacity in five water tanks. This nutrient-rich silt was applied by farmers in their fields to restore
the fertility of the top soil layer. 2,034 individuals directly benefited from desilting.

The Water Management Program works with communities to harvest and store rainwater for direct use,
and to replenish groundwater by building and restoring water-related infrastructures and desilting of old
tanks in villages. This supports the revival of traditional water bodies, construction of water storage
infrastructures, and the safe disposal of wastewater. Safe drinking water for all is promoted with
innovative low-cost, sustainable technologies, and WASH behavior, creating awareness about the need for
water conservation. Teams build the capacities of local communities for better management and
long-term sustainability of their water resources. The program seeks opportunities to collaborate for
continuous improvement and replication of low-cost water management interventions.

Indicators FY 2019–20 Cumulative
Check dams constructed 8 75
15 66
Ponds 55 1,999
Soak pits 24 193
Soak wells 425 3,156
Training and awareness sessions 17 140
Rooftop rainwater harvesting in schools 681 3,015
Household water treatment and storage systems
distributed 6 20
Community tanks

1Districts with iron contamination compiled from: CGWB Report “Groundwater quality in shallow aquifers of India,” (2010).
Accessed from: http://cgwb.gov.in/documents/waterquality/gw_quality_in_shallow_aquifers.pdf.

Agricultural Development

Inderjeet Singh from village Chakpura Miyan Khurd in Uttar Pradesh received a seed drill, a farm machine
used for seed sowing. Inderjeet noticed multiple benefits from using the seed drill, such as placing seed at
the right depth in the soil along with manure, even distancing of seeds which make less use of seed quan-
tity, good germination, and above all, financial savings. Inderjeet used the seed drill in his three bigha land
and, further used the machine for another 41 bighas for other farmers earning Rs 20,500 in one season.

The Agricultural Development Program promotes sustainable livelihoods by building the capacities of
farmers, including women producers, on improved agricultural practices and new technologies that in-
crease crop yields, conserve water, and improve soil fertility. The team works with small-holder
farmers in rain-fed and irrigated areas to facilitate adoption of improved and advanced agricultural prac-
tices that include soil health management, crop production management, input-use efficiency, small farm
mechanization, water-efficient irrigation techniques, horticultural development, livestock
management, and the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in agriculture.

Indicators FY 2019-20 Cumulative
Trainings/field days/meetings 544 3,484
Demo distributed (number) 6,724 31,545
Laser levelling area (acres) 1,699 3,603
Kitchen demo (number) 732 3,022
Drip and sprinkler (acres) 215 848
Irrigation through solar pump (acres) 110 1,108
Zero tillage of land (acres) 389 5,951

Good Rural Governance

Sustainability is a dynamic and continuous process of capacity building that helps to create ownership in
the community such that the benefits are available even after project completion. Five villages of Mu-
zaffarpur district, Bihar, bear testimony to the sustainability of interventions. Jhola devi, is a member of
the Women’s Leadership School (WLS) of Pakhna of Minapur block, Muzzafarpur. During a training ses-
sion she brought up the issue of most people in her village not availing the National Health Authority’s
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, due to a lack of knowledge on how to procure the
required “golden” card. Through this scheme, the poor can obtain health insurance up to INR 5 lakhs per
family in designated government hospitals. The WLS trainees organized a one-day camp on 8 April 2019,
which was attended by sixty-four families. Fifty-three golden cards were made, and the initial documenta-
tion was put in place for other families to procure these cards in future.

The Good Rural Governance Program promotes citizen participation in local governance for strengthen-
ing democracy at the grassroots. The program empowers citizens to work collectively for better delivery
of government services, build capacities to improve functioning of village-level institutions, and creates
awareness about important health and sanitation issues. The empowered citizens and village-level institu-
tions monitor the maintenance of public infrastructure and conserve natural resources for holistic village
development. The inclusion of women and deprived groups in all these initiatives make the program eq-
uitable. Good Rural Governance is instrumental in promoting participatory, accountable, and sustainable
village development.

Indicators FY 2019-20 Cumulative
Sushasan champions, community leaders, mahila 4,547 28,916
sangathan and club members trained
1,909 46,303
Legal Literacy Camps participants 12,299 38,455

Citizen Information and Support Center calls

Transform Lives

The Transform Lives program provides schoolchildren access to drinking water, better sanitation facilities,
a conducive school environment, and digital and life skills awareness. The initiative encourages parents,
teachers, and children to increase enrollment and reduce dropouts in rural government schools, espe-
cially of girl children. It further supports School Management Committees by building their capacities for
improved functioning of the school and sustainability of improvements.

Haldina’s 400 students in classes 6–12 are experiencing the changes firsthand and are beneficiaries and
ambassadors for demonstrating how school improvements can lead to better education outcomes. A
smart classroom constructed in the shape of a cruise ship was created under the Samagra Shiksha Abhi-
yan of the government wherein the district administration and education department joined hands with
Sehgal Foundation to make the school child-friendly. The ground-level room is a smart classroom with
furniture and a 55-inch LED screen that promotes internet-based learning and screens relevant video
content to students. The classroom on level one is an activity room where students engage in extracurric-
ular activities such as crafts and models, giving shape to their ambitions and dreams.

Indicators FY 2019–20 Cumulative
School Management Committees (SMCs) trained 21 317
3,172 8,788
Boys and girls trained in digital and life skills aware-
ness 17 70
5,867 21,785
Schools transformed

Students reached

Community Media

“Radio lessons have proven useful for children at all times,” says Ravinder, a resident of village Shikrawa
and a listener of Alfaz-e-Mewat. The “Radio School” program was started about seven years ago with the
objective to provide tutorial sessions through subject teachers to students who cannot afford private
tuitions, and also to reach out to drop-out students or students who have never been to school. Nawed,
a Class IX student from village Dhadoli, says he listens to “Radio School” and makes his younger siblings
listen to the episodes on different subjects.

Sehgal Foundation provides a media platform for local community voices using a media-mix that includes
community radio, which has proved to be a critical media tool at the grassroots, in Nuh district, Haryana,
along with newsletters, street theater, media training, and other Information Education Communication
materials.
Since the most essential participants in grassroots development work are local voices, Alfaz-e-Mewat FM
107.8 broadcasts in the local language in an accessible format thirteen hours daily to over 225 villages. By
championing the voices of the most isolated and vulnerable populations, community radio raises citizen
awareness and empowers individuals to participate in their own development. Villagers, schoolchildren,
and local artists take active part in the radio programs.

Indicators FY 2019–20
Radio programs made 646

Calls received at the radio station 5,971

Rural Research

The Rural Research team maximizes the impact of poverty alleviation initiatives for rural communities
using participatory research and impact assessment as practical tools to inform action, outcomes and
learning.

Rural Research is a cross-cutting initiative that bifurcates its work into broad themes: Research, Monitor-
ing, and Evaluation, and Development Research and Policy Initiatives.

1. Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation focuses on integrating all components of the research process
undertaken to design and implement interventions by Sehgal Foundation in rural pockets of the country.
These components largely include needs assessment, baseline surveys, mid-term monitoring, and impact
evaluation studies. Process documentation is an integral component that guides the evaluation process
with emphasis on qualitative and quantitative measurement of trends through surveys and participatory
rural appraisal tools and techniques.

2. Development Research and Policy Initiatives focuses on transforming the experience generated from
the work at the grassroots into knowledge that can be shared with other like-minded organizations and
practitioners. Using evidence generated from on-the-ground practice to inform policy is the crux of this
initiative. This is done through undertaking strategic and policy-level studies on poverty-related issues and
other pressing social dimensions, organizing roundtables and conferences on key development issues,
and contributing to the country's policy landscape through writings and collaborations.

Projects at a Glance

As a civil society organization holding a special consultative status with the United Na-
tions Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Sehgal Foundation’s efforts are dedicat-
ed to promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sehgal Foundation teams
support and endorse Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and goals as ap-
proved by Schedule VII Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013 with multiple ongoing
CSR projects.

1 Haryana

Project Partner Project Title Project Theme 1
2
CAF Oracle Digital Literacy and Digital Literacy
Life Skills Training 8
DCB Bank Ltd Groundwater Devel- Water Management 7
opment
Fluor Daniel India Private Fluor KI Pathshala Good Rural Gover-
Limited nance
Gartner Develop Villages to Integrated Village
develop India Development
Acuity Knowledge Part- Udyami Krishak Agriculture Develop-
ners ment
Nestle India Vriddhi Integrated Village
Development
HDFC Parivartan Integrated Village
Development
Sapient Gram Uday Agriculture Develop-
ment and Good Rural
ZS Associates Meri Paathshaala 3 Governance
Digital Literacy

2 Rajasthan

Project Partner Project Title Project Theme
Gram Unnati
Bayer CropScience Agriculture Develop-
ment and Water Man-
Pernord Ricard Samriddhi agement

IDRF Jagruk Krishak integrated village Devel-
opment
Women’s Capacity Building
Agriculture Develop-
The Mosaic Company Foun- Krishi Jyoti ment
dation
Good Rural Governance
K+S kali Gmbh Unnat Krishi II
Agriculture Develop-
ment, Water Manage-
ment, and Education

Agriculture Develop-
ment Project

3 Uttar Pradesh

Project Partner Project Title Project Theme
Integrated Village Development
GE T&D Gram Utkarsh

4 Bihar Project Title Project Theme
Jagruk Mahila Swastha Parivar Good Rural Governance
Project Partner
Gram Utthan Agriculture Development
Biomerieux Adarsh Panchayat Bhandari Integrated Village Development
Hamari Pathshala Good Rural Governance
PTC Foundation Kaushal Krishak Agriculture Development
PTC Foundation
PTC Foundation
PI foundation

3
4

5 Telangana Project Theme

Project Partner Project Title

5 6 Andhra Pradesh

Project Partner Project Title Project Theme

The Coca-Cola Foundation Jaldhara-V Water Management

6

7 Karnataka

Project Partner Project Project Theme
Water Management
The Coca-Cola Foundation Jaldhara-V

8 Maharashtra

Project Partner Project Title Project Theme

DCB Bank Ltd Groundwater Development Water Management

Year at a Glance

Twenty Year Celebrations

Sehgal Foundation celebrated its twenty years of working together with rural communities by hosting a
partnership meet at its green building campus in Gurugram on September 20, 2019.

Bhamashah Award

Sehgal Foundation was awarded the state-level Bhamashah recognition by the Government of Rajasthan
for contribution to the education sector.

Constitution of Research Ethics Review Committee

Sehgal Foundation constituted a Research Ethics Review Committee to ensure the highest ethical stan-
dards for the research work done at the foundation. The term of membership is two years. The committee
members include—Dr Sunil Sharma, Indian Spinal Injuries Center (clinician); Mr Ashim Vachher (lawyer);
Ms Sudha Parthasarathy, country representative, ASEAD (social scientist); Dr Usha Rani Ahuja, principal
scientist, NIAP-ICAR (basic medical scientist); Mr Mubarik Hussain (community representative); Ms Niti
Saxena, director, Development Research and Policy Initiatives; and Dr Pradeep Mehta, director, Research,
Monitoring, and Evaluation, Sehgal Foundation.

Sandvik India Gender Award

Community radio Alfaz-e-Mewat program on gender issues won the Sandvik India Gender Awards 2019.
The annual awards are a partnership program with United Nations Global Compact, Swedish Chamber
of Commerce India, and Consulate General of Sweden, which recognize excellence and commitment to
gender equality.

Community radio national award

Alfaz-e-Mewat won the National Community Radio Award from the Ministry of Information and Broad-
casting, GoI, in the thematic category for the program, Kanoon Ki Baat. The awards were presented by
the Union Minister, Information and Broadcasting, Sh. Prakash Javadekar at the Community Radio Sam-
melan held at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre August 27–29, 2019.

Sehgal Foundation won two awards at CSR Summit

Sehgal Foundation team received two awards at the CSR Summit organized by UBS Forums on August 9,
2019, in New Delhi. The awards—NGO of the Year, and CSR Implementing Partner, acknowledge the rural
development journey of the foundation over the past twenty years and the impact of the implementation
work done under CSR projects.

Sehgal Foundation won two awards at CSR Summit

Sehgal Foundation team received two awards at the CSR Summit organized by UBS Forums on August 9,
2019, in New Delhi. The awards—NGO of the Year, and CSR Implementing Partner, acknowledge the rural
development journey of the foundation over the past twenty years and the impact of the implementation
work done under CSR projects.

Rainwater harvesting training at NIRDPR, Hyderabad

A four-day training program on rainwater harvesting was successfully conducted at the Rural Technology
Park (RTP) at the NIRDPR Rajendranagar campus, Hyderabad. RTP at the NIRDPR campus houses the
Water and Wastewater Resource Center set up by Sehgal Foundation to showcase its innovative models
in water management.

Dr. Suri Sehgal receives Parivartan Inspire Award

The founder and chairperson of S M Sehgal Foundation, Dr. Suri Sehgal, was recognized with the
Parivartan Inspire Awards 2019 for his leadership, dedication, and devotion to empowering rural
communities in India.

Excellence in CSR Social Impact Award

DCB Bank and Sehgal Foundation received the first runner-up award for Excellence in CSR Social Impact:
Best Corporate-Nonprofit partnership at the ACEF Asian Leaders Forums and Awards on September 29,
2019, in Mumbai.

Transform Lives events engage individual partners

Transform Lives one school at a time engaged individual and group partners in the US as part of two
networking events on November 16 and November 23, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa, and Minneapolis,
Minnesota, respectively.

Ninth Annual Conference on Good Governance and Citizen Participation

Sehgal Foundation organized a conference on good governance and citizen participation called ”Water
Governance in Rural India-Potential, Practices, and Policy” in collaboration with the National Institute of
Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) at Hyderabad on November 6, 2019. Dr K Rajasekhar, dep-
uty director general, NIC, Govt. of India, was the keynote speaker.

Workshops in Household Water Quality and Treatment

Sehgal Foundation in partnership with CAWST and Water Wisdom Foundation organized a workshop on
Household Water Quality and Treatment from November 27–29, 2019 in Udaipur.

Two more workshops in partnership with CAWST and NIRDPR were conducted including a JalKalp
Biosand Filter Technology training on February 24–26, promoting access to clean drinking water for
communities. A workshop on Sharing Experiences and Technologies on Household Water Treatment and
Storage on February 27–28.

Annual gender sensitization training

The Gender Committee conducted a workshop for the Sehgal Foundation team in Nuh on Feb 18 where
invited gender experts discussed the Policy against sexual harassment and gender stereotypes.

Sharing rural development interventions and learning

Sehgal Foundation COO Anjali Makhija, and Pooja O. Murada, director, Communications, took part in
engaging discussions and sharing sessions with the students and donor community in the US from
February 28–March 10. Key events included a talk on women's empowerment and economic development
in rural India on March 2 at St. Catherine’s University, Minnesota Center for Diversity in Economics;
meeting with Des Moines and Minnesota chapter members, and Transform Lives one school at a time
event in Florida on March 7.

COVID-19 Response

The onset of 2020 has brought an unexpected and unprecedented healthcare situation with the pandem-
ic, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Recognizing challenges due to this continued crisis situation, the Se-
hgal Foundation team remains committed to spreading awareness and ensuring safety of our employees,
community, and all other partners and associates. We wish for you and your family to remain safe during
this time.

Financials 2019-20

In FY 2019-20, the Sehgal Foundation USA grants to S M Sehgal Foundation amounted to US$ 3,389,900
(Rs 235,170,902). S M Sehgal Foundation also received funding from other organizations amounting to US$
1,941,819 (Rs.135,883,639). To date the total grants from Sehgal Foundation, USA have been $ 30,702,133
(1,675,891,212)

These grants and other income (interest and office space rental – net of expenses for leased space) were
used for water management (23%); agricultural development (18%); rural research (6%); good rural gover-
nance (12%); communications and resource mobilization (9%); crop improvement research (8%); Transform
Lives(17%) and general administration (7%).

Abridged Balance Sheet as on 31st March 2020

Particulars Current Year Current Year Prev. Year Amount in '000
Amount (US$) Amount (Rs.) Prev. Year
Amount (Rs.) Amount (US$)
4,124 2,97,414
Assets 2,88,628 169 11,941 4,374
Fixed Assets 4,056 1,86,360 176
2,740
Loans and Advances 11,781 8,349 4,95,715
7,290
Current Assets 2,83,940
1
Total 5,84,349 538
6,751
Liabilities 7,290

Corpus Fund 1 1 1
Current liabilities 54,041 772 36,564
7,576 4,59,150
General Funds 5,30,308
8,349 4,95,715
Total 5,84,349

Abridged Income & Expenditure Account for the Year Ending 31st March 2020

Particulars Current Year Current Year Prev. Year Amount in '000
Amount (Rs.) Amount (US$) Amount (Rs.) Prev. Year
Income Amount (US$)
Self Generated Income 70,416 1,006 68,218
Rent, Interest and other 1,003
receipts 96,953 1,386 98,895
Grants 3,968 1,98,894 1,454
Indian Sources 6,360 3,66,007 2,925
5,382
International Sources 2,77,730 4,326 2,66,673
724 27,908 3,922
Total 4,45,099 290 21,807 410
5,340 3,16,388 321
Expenditure 1,020 49,619 4,653
729
Program 3,02,795

Management* 50,631

Others (Depreciation) 20,301

Total 3,73,727

Deficit/Surplus 71,372

Exchange Rate (current year) INR 70/US$
* Incuding Building Maintenance expenses for the leased space.

S M SEHGAL FOUNDATION
PROGRAM EXPENSES DURING FY 19-20

US$ 4.85 MILLION(RS. 339 MILLION)*

Board of Trustees and Council of Advisors

Founder Trustees

SURINDER (SURI) M. SEHGAL PhD, is cofounder and chairman of Board of Trustees of S M Sehgal Foun-
dation and Sehgal Foundation in the USA; founder and chair of Misr Hytech Seed, Egypt, Hytech Seed, In-
dia, founder of William L. Brown Center for Economic Botany at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis,
Missouri, and emeritus trustee of the Garden.

EDDA G. SEHGAL educated at Hohenstaufen Gymnasium, Goppingen, Germany; trustee of S M Sehgal
Foundation in India and Sehgal Foundation, USA; and founder, with Suri Sehgal, and board member of
Proagro Group, India, and Global Technologies Incorporated, USA (1990–1998).

Board of Trustees

BEN SEHGAL, PhD, trustee; member of the board of directors of Sehgal Foundation in the USA, and
board member of the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

BHAMY SHENOY, PhD, trustee; activist with Mysore Grahakara Parishat, Pratham, and other NGOs.

GANESAN BALACHANDER, PhD, trustee; director, former director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology
and the Environment, Bangalore, India, and member of Consortium Board of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

KAMAL BAWA, PhD, trustee; distinguished professor of biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and
founder/president of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
(www.atree.org).

RAJAT JAY SEHGAL, trustee; executive vice president of Sehgal Foundation, former managing director
of Hytech Seed India Private Limited, and former managing trustee and executive director of S M Sehgal
Foundation.

PUSHPA SUNDAR, trustee; author of Giving with a Thousand Hands; 1963 batch Indian Administrative
Service officer (resigned 1966); worked at Ford Foundation, Government of Gujarat, FICCI, and National
Foundation for India; consulted for World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Nand and Jeet Khemka Foun-
dation; and senior fellow of 1995 International Fellows in Philanthropy Program, Johns Hopkins University.

SUHAS P. WANI, PhD, advisor; Research Program director, Asia Region, and director, ICRISAT Develop-
ment Center, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India (www.icrisat.org).

Council of Advisors

M. D. ASTHANA has held multiple former positions in the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) in Haryana
government and the Government of India; director of the Council for Social Development (January 2001–
December 2004).

JAN LEEMANS, member board of directors, Misr Hytech Seed International, Egypt; Solynta, Wagenin-
gen, The Netherlands; and Agrosafve, Gent, Belgium; former research director of Plant Genetic Systems,
Belgium.

ANITA ROY, president, Doctor on Call Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi and winner of President’s Medal for Meritori-
ous Service (2005).

JANE E. SCHUKOSKE, BA, JD, LLM, advisor, higher education and development consultant based in the
USA. Former positions: executive director of US-India Educational Foundation, associate professor at
University of Baltimore School of Law, and CEO of S M Sehgal Foundation (2011–16).

GENSUKE TOKORO, advisor; professor (special appointment) at the Institute of Innovation Research of
Hitotsubashi University, Japan (2008–2014); president and CEO of NAI Inc. and Kyoto Biopharmaceuticals
Inc.; and board member of Institute for the study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics.

NEELIMA KHETAN, advisor, is a visiting fellow, Brookings India; former Group CSR head, Vedanta Group;
VP of CSR at Hindustan Zinc; director, CSR and Sustainability, Coca-Cola India and South West Asia;
India Country director, American India Foundation; CEO, Seva Mandir; acting director, Institute of Ru-
ral Management, Anand (IRMA); and recipient, Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow National Leadership
Award and Maharana Mewar Award.

RAMAN K. SEHGAL, MBA, advisor; managing director and a member of the Board of Directors of Misr
Hytech Seed International, Egypt; and a member of the Board of Directors of Hytech Seed, India.
S. K. VASAL, PhD, advisor; plant breeder and geneticist from CIMMYT, World Food Prize laureate, and
recipient of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture.

VYOMA NAIR is executive board adviser to Nucleus, is an expert on international expansion who devel-
oped an integrated “one-stop shopping” service model covering multi-country HR, legal, accounting, tax,
and compliance services for smaller US tech companies seeking international expansion. She worked with
Redback Networks, RedHat Software, and Theorem Clinical Research.

Team

RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Gurugram)

Amba Mukherjee, MA, senior research associate, Research Monitoring and Evaluation
Anjali Godyal, PGDip, chief development officer
Anjali Makhija, MA, chief operating officer
Ankit Ojha, MA, assistant program leader, Strengthening Village-Level Institutions
Anvesha Ranjan, MSc, associate, Projects and Fundraising
Aparajeeta Vaibhav, MSc, assistant program leader, Adaptive Technologies-Water
Arti Manchanda Grover, MA, program leader, Communications
Chander Shekhar, MBA, senior manager, Finance & Accounts
Chander Shekhar Mehra, MA, senior research and policy associate, Development Research and Policy
Initiatives
Debika Goswami, MA, program leader, Governance and Policy Advocacy
Devika Batra, PGDip, manager, CSR and Fundraising
Ellora Mubashir, PhD, communications specialist, Project Development
Gurpreet Singh, MBA, accountant
Hari Bhagwan Sharma, PhD, documentation consultant, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Harmanjeet Singh, PG Dip, program leader, Water and Infrastructure Management
Jagdish Prasad, BA, manager, Administration
Lalit Mohan Sharma, MTech, director, Adaptive Technologies-Water
Mahipal Singh, assistant program leader, Rajasthan
Manoj Sharma, MBA, manager, Information Technology
Meenakshi Mrinalini, PGDip, officer, Human Resources
N P Singh, MSc, program leader, Governance and Policy Advocacy
Navneet Narwal, MA, associate director, Transform Lives one school at a time
Neema Joshi, MSc, manager, Project Development
Niti Saxena, MSc, director, Development Research and Policy Initiatives
Pankaj Gaur, MBA, manager, external reports and indirect taxes
Pawan Kumar, MSc, director, Agriculture Development
Pooja O Murada, MA, director, Communications
Pradeep K Mehta, PhD, director, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Purva Jain, PhD, research associate, Development Research and Policy Initiatives
Rahul Kumar, MA, program leader, Bihar
Ramesh Kapahi, PGDip, chief financial officer
Rashi Gupta, Msc, manager, Partnerships and Fundraising
Richa Saxena, MSc, senior research associate, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Salahuddin Saiphy, MSc, director, Water Management
Sam Kapoor, MS, manager, Projects and Fundraising
Saurabh Sood, MA, social scientist, Development Research and Policy Initiatives
Saurabh Srivastava, PGDip, program leader, Strengthening Village-Level Institutions
Siprian Kiro, MBA, assistant manager, documentation
Shalinder Singh, BSc, Manager, MIS
Shailesh Pant, BSc, assistant program leader
Sonia Chopra, MA, program leader, Communications
Subhransu Kumar Bebarta, PGDip, manager, Project Development
Susmita Guru, MPhil, senior social scientist, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Vikas Jha, PGDip, PhD, director, Governance and Policy Advocacy
Vishnu B. Khedkar, ME (Agri Engg), program leader, Maharashtra
Vrindaa Sharma, MA, research associate, Development Research and Policy Initiatives

Our Supporters

CONSULTANTS

Marly Cornell, M D Gupta

SUPPORT TEAM (Gurugram)

Ram Bahadur, Kuldeep Chand, Arvind Kumar, Jitender Kumar, Ram Krishan, Laxman, Arjun Singh,
Shoorveer Singh, and Surender Singh

CROP IMPROVEMENT (Hyderabad)

G P Shravan Kumar, BA, accounts and administration officer
Lakshman Gupta, MS, research associate
P Vani Sekhar, MSc, principal scientist

SUPPORT TEAM (Hyderabad)

K Chandrasekhar, Syed Ghouse, V Raghu, and C Venkatesh

FIELD TEAMS

Sehgal Foundation field teams work in the districts of Gurugram, Nuh, Mahendergarh, Haryana; Alwar and
Karauli, Rajasthan; Kolar district in Karnataka; Medchal district in Telengana; Anantapur district in Andhra
Pradesh; district Aurangabad in Maharashtra; and districts of East Champaran, Samastipur, Muzaffarpur,
Sitamarhi, Bihar.

FIELD OFFICE
Community Radio Station and Training Center
Village Ghaghas, Nagina Block
District Nuh, Haryana 122108
PROJECT OFFICES
HARYANA
Nuh
First Floor Yahuda Building Ward No. 8
Behind Bijli Ghar
Near Maruti Apra Service Centre
District Nuh, Haryana
Tauru
Village Goela
Post - Tauru Tehsil
Tauru District Nuh, Haryana
Ferozepur Jhirka
C/O Mr Atul
G44 Ferozepur Jhirka,
District Nuh, Haryana
Rewari
C/O Mr Mahabir Prasad Khatawali
Village Rewari, Haryana, 122414
Mahendragarh
C/O Ms Sulochana Yadav
Ground Floor Plot No 402, Sector 1
Narnaul, Haryana
RAJASTHAN
Alwar
Mohalla Kala Kuan
Near Saini Dharmshala
Kanaha Tower Main Road,
Alwar, Rajasthan 301001
BIHAR
Samastipur
C/O Mr Gunendra Prasad
Sinha Ward No. 10
Near Dharampur High School
Post Dharampur Block
Samastipur Samastipur, Bihar 848101

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