President: Saradindu Banerjee
Mr. Banerjee is presently the President of SPADE. He has a vast and varied experience of working in other countries like USA, Italy, France, England, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal in different capacities and organizations. He possess a total experience of 32 years and his specialization is in Fund management and administration of large scale social development programmes, human resource development, networking with Government and funding organizations; Monitoring and evaluation.
Mr. Banerjee was the Founder Director of SAHAY, a non-profit organization affiliated to Children International, Kansas City, USA and had played an instrumental role in setting up the organization. Also Mr. Banerjee has the experience in decentralization of organizational structure and capacity building of organizations on Reproductive Child Health Programmes through his work with CINI.
He also has experience in monitoring and evaluation of programmes and has done assignments for CASA, UNICEF, Trickle Up, Oxfam and DFID. He has worked on education projects for deprived children in North Bengal with the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, funded by UNESCO as well as for children in slums and railway platforms along N.F. Railways, funded by UNICEF.
Mr. Banerjee has been associated with creating a conducive environment for the voluntary sector for over twenty years, starting with his being the Coordinator of the Association of Voluntary Agencies in West Bengal facilitated by Oxfam (India) Trust and later as a member of the Donor Agency Network, Eastern Region in India.
General Secretary: Baidya Nath Paul
Mr. Paul who is a B. Sc. in Dairy Technology, General Management Program from IRMA, is the Director of SPADE and is working since 2003. He is the overall in-charge of all activities pertaining to Micro-finance, SHG Promotion and Capacity Building Program. Mr. Paul has 28 years experience in the field of Rural Development and he has worked with NDDB, West Bengal Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, BSWI – a NGO.
His experience entails Community Organization Building, Micro-finance Program Management, Cooperative Management, Training, Livelihood Intervention, Holistic Development with Govt. Department Linking, Planning-Implementing-Monitoring of multi-location projects, etc.
Vice President: Indrajit Dutt
Mr. Dutt who is a BE in Electronics & Telecommunications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a B. Sc in Physics from IIT-Kharagpur, is associated with SPADE since March, 2015.
Earlier he was the General Manager, Head Office of Reliance Communications Ltd. Also, he has worked as the Country Head of IT Services in PCS Industries Ltd. Some of his other engagements were with Tata Elxsi Limited, Globsyn Tech and Emerson Network Power, Pertech Computers Limited, TVS Electronics Limited, ORG Systems Limited, etc. As an engineer with more than 30 years of experience across all segments in the IT industry, he has a broad Managerial perspective.
He is experienced in all aspects of Technical Support, Product Management, in IT, systems and telecom, blended with high-end technology sales, both direct and through channels. His major strengths encompasses end to end Planning, Execution & Management of Large Multi-location Projects, Managing Large Technical Teams, Planning and Launching of new Service Products, Preparation and submission of Large bids in Government and Private Corporate sector, Good Understanding of Logistics, Quality Management and Project Management.
Treasurer: Subhasish Debnath
Subhasish Debnath has worked on disaster management and livelihood enhancement issues for over 20 years at the local, state and national levels. Prior to joining the SPADE he worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Department of Disaster Management, GoWB for nearly 10 years. At UNDP and State Secretariat, he led state advocacy campaigns to address Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, community based disaster risk reduction programme, Urban Risk Reduction & School Safety Programme and Inter Agency Group for humanitarian response. As independent consultant, he also currently advise to the IIM Kolkata, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (DTTILLP), PwC – TARU Leading Edge Pvt. Ltd. CARITAS,, FADV, ADIDAS, Government of West Bengal and other I/NGOs on various projects of Resilient Climate Risk Reduction, Disaster Management and livelihood enhancement.
Prior to UNDP and Government of West Bengal he managed multiple projects including technical support, program assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation of the projects on the Community based Disaster Preparedness Programme, Pulse-polio Immunization programme, and Promotion of Community based Organizations for financial Services involving multiple stake holders and multi-location teams for the State Government, NABARD, UNICEF, Oxfam, CARITAS and local NGOs etc.
Subhasish Debnath has Bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Calcutta, Post Graduation degree on Environment Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISW & BM), Calcutta and Diploma in Rural Development Management from National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad.
Assistant Director – Development: Anubrata Datta
Mr. Datta who is a M. Com. – Management, FDP, Indian Institute of Management -Ahmedabad, is associated with the organization since 2005.
Earlier, he was a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Burdwan for 4 years and has more than 12 years’ experience in teaching different MBA and BBA (Honors) level courses. As an active researcher, he has published many Research Papers, Case Studies in different accredited journals on Education, Psychology, and Educational Administration. He has authored a number of books on SHG Troubleshooting, External Audit of SHGs, Internal Audit of Federations, etc., and participated in the process of improvisation of different training materials, books, etc. published by SPADE.
Also, he had developed a number of case studies on different governance related issues, conducted studies and developed IEC Materials on WATSAN, Avian Flu, Health & Hygiene, HIV/AIDS, PRA – PLA on Livelihood, Village Development Plan Preparation, etc. He is closely associated with the Mentor Edge initiative which is a unique initiative by Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad.
Manager – Disaster Management: Arkadipta Banerjee
Arka, completed his post graduate diploma in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from Bhavan’s College of Communications and Management, Kolkata.
Arka’s core competence includes HR Management, research and documentation, Disaster Management, Training, etc.
He has a wide of experience of working with various international as well as state level NGOs like Oxfam, ADRA India, IGSSS, Sabuj Sangha, Joygopsalpur Gram Vikash Kendra, etc in senior positions for more than 20 years. This apart, he, as a freelance documentation specialist, provided documentation support to various national and international organizations like CARITAS India, Indo Global Social Service Society and so on.
Arka has increased his capacities through attending various skill development training events organised by RedR India, RASS-Tirupati, UNICEF, BBC, Caritas India and so on.
Some of the major Projects headed by Arka from time to time are Polio Eradication and Strengthening Routine Immunization and Community Based Disaster Preparedness, both with support from UNICEF, Building Resilience for Vulnerable Communities with support from Concern Worldwide, Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project with support from the World Bank, Resilience Building for Sundarban Communities with support from UBU-Denmark, SuPoshan with support from IGSSS, Global Proghramme India with support from Caritas India and so on.
Expert – Institution Development: Rajkumar Laskar
Mr. Laskar who is a M. Com., P. G. Dip. in Personnel Management from NIPM, is associated with SPADE as the Expert – Institution Development and his area of proficiency covers SHG – Bank Linkage, Cluster Management, Financial Inclusion, Workers’ Education, Livelihood Facilitation, Farmer Producer Organisation and Documentation.
He had participated in many national seminars, symposium and trainings organized by BIRD – Lucknow, Indian Institute of Workers’ Education – Mumbai, V. V. Giri National Labour Institute – Noida, GIZ and others.