Academics

Name :   Satheesan Kartha, DGM/FM

Qualification : 
BSc (Physics), University of Mumbai, CAIIB,  Course on Development Consultancy, Mauritius

Area of Specialization:
Farmer Producer Organisations, Developmental Finance, Project Appraisal, Infrastructure Finance, Farm & Off-Farm Sector Development, Rural Livelihoods, Monitoring & Evaluation, etc.

Professional Experience:
Shri Satheesan Kartha is a professional banker with more than 30 years of experience. Prior to his stint as Faculty Member in this institute, he has served at various positions in NABARD across multiple verticals including Corporate Planning, Information Technology, Investment Credit, Human Resources, Infrastructure Finance, etc.  He has also acted as Nodal Officer for NABARD Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd., (Nabcons) in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. Prior to this assignment, he was a District Development Manager, Raichur District, Karnataka. He has also involved as District Development Officer in charge of Siddharthnagar district in Uttar Pradesh as well as Ernakulam district in Kerala. During the course of his career he been instrumental in launching and monitoring a number of developmental programmes of NABARD like FPOs, Watersheds, Tribal Development Projects, Livelihood & Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, Rural Marketing, etc.

Email:  k.satheesan@nabard.org Phone : 0824-2888505

Name :   Smt. Sheela M Bhandarkar, DGM/FM

Qualification : 
B.Com., CAIIB, Master of Business Administration (Finance), Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad.

Area of Specialization:
Corporate Planning, Banking and Finance, Institutional Development, Farmer Producer Organisations, Rural Livelihoods and Off-Farm Sector Development, Financial Inclusion, Financing of Rural Infrastructure Projects and Human Resource Development.

Professional Experience:

Smt. Sheela M Bhandarkar is a Development Banker with more than 2½ decades of professional experience in Head Office, Regional Offices and Training Establishment of NABARD, in the States of Karnataka and Maharashtra.   As a Director on the Board of Vidarbha Konkan Grameen Bank, Maharashtra (2021-2023), she guided the Bank in its turnaround towards profit-making, business expansion and adoption of improved banking technology.  She was closely associated with the formulation and implementation of the GoI’s Revival Package for Short Term Cooperative Credit Structure in 2004.  As the District Development Manager of Dharwad district (2014-2020) and Gadag district (2015-16), Karnataka, she was instrumental in the formation and nurturing of successful Farmer Producer Organisations, Off-Farm Producer Organisations and implementing programs for promotion of rural livelihoods. She has rich field level experience in Credit Planning for priority sectors at district level as also Corporate Planning at State Level.  She has also been associated with financing of rural infrastructure projects, implementation of banking technology and micro finance initiatives. 

Email: sheela.bhandarkar@nabard.org Phone: 0824-2888506

Name:   Dr. Sandhya Nagesh, DGM/FM

Qualification : 

• BSc.(Agri.), College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala Agricultural University (1998)
• MSc.(Ag. – Agricultural Economics), College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, Kerala Agricultural University (2000)
• CAIIB
• National Eligibility Test (NET): Agricultural Economics
• Ph.D in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) (2021) on “Finance and Development: Examining Financial Inclusion in terms of Dimensions and Determinants”

Area of Specialization:
Development  Economics, Financial Inclusion, Producers’ Organisations, Supply Chain Management in Agriculture, Farm & Off-farm Sector Development, Natural Resource Management & Integrated Farming Systems, Project Financing and Financing of Rural Infrastructure Development Projects.

Professional Experience:
Sandhya Nagesh joined the Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS) of NABARD in 2000 and has served in the states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab and Gujarat in various capacities. Besides being an expert in project financing, she has hands-on experience in formulation, implementation and monitoring of various promotional and developmental programmes of NABARD. In various states, she has handled projects on Tribal Development, Watershed Development and Farm Sector Development. She also played a leading role in formation and nurturing of Farmer Producers’ Organisations in Kerala where she was part of the team involved in sustainable transformation of PACS to Multi Service Centres. She has also worked in areas of Climate Change, Natural Resource Management and Skill & livelihood development initiatives in the off-farm sector. She was also closely associated with Appraisal, Financing and Monitoring of Rural Infrastructure Projects as well as with Refinance Operations of NABARD. She has contributed to credit potential assessment and planning exercise in various priority sectors and has also served as the District Development Officer of Thiruvananthapuram District for two years.

She has a doctorate in Economics from JNU for her work on “Finance and Development: Examining Financial Inclusion in terms of Dimensions and Determinants”. She has also been trained on High-tech Agriculture (Galilee, Israel), Agri-value chain financing (IRMA, Anand), Methods of data analysis in agriculture and development economics (IFMR, Chennai), Climate Financing (TERI, Gurugram) and Social Stock Exchange (National Institute of Securities Markets).

Email: sandhya.nagesh@nabard.org  Phone : 0824-2888507

Name :   Baidya Nath Singh, DGM/FM

Qualification : 
BA, CAIIB, PG Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relation, Executive Certificate in Business Analytics for Senior Managers (XLRI, Jamshedpur), NAP-Ag, REDD+ (UNCC), MBA (Finance), e-MDP in Financial Analysis and Financial Management (IIM Kozhikode)

Area of Specialization:
Banking and Finance, Banking Regulation, Farmers’ Producer Organisation, Group Mode of Lending (SHGs/ JLGs), Analysis of Financial Statements, Climate Change and Green Financing, Value Chain financing for Farm and Off-Farm sector development projects etc

Professional Experience:

Shri Baidya Nath Singh joined the Rural Development Banking Services (RDBS) of NABARD in 2008. Prior to his stint as Faculty Member in this institute, he has served at various positions in NABARD across multiple verticals including Department of Cooperative Revival and Reform (DCRR), Department of Supervision (DOS), Institutional Development Department (IDD), Farm Sector Development Department (FSDD), Off-Farm Development Department (OFDD), State Project Department (SPD), Department of Premises, Security and Procurement (DPSP), Department of Information Technology(DIT), Department of Storage and Marketing(DSM) etc. He has served in the states of Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar. He has also acted as Nodal Officer for NABARD Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd., (Nabcons) in Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar. Prior to this assignment, he served as District Development Manager (DDM), NABARD, Deoghar District, Jharkhand. During the course of his career he has been instrumental in launching and monitoring a number of developmental programmes of NABARD like FPOs, Watersheds, Tribal Development Projects, Livelihood & Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, Rural Marketing (Rural Haat/ Rural Mart/ SDIs), etc.Prior to joining NABARD, he has served in Indian Air Force (IAF) for 11 years. His area of interest include finance and accounting, analysis of financial statements, climate change and green finance, developmental projects, infrastructure lending, bank supervision etc..

Email : baidya.singh@nabard.org    Phone: 0824-2888509

Name :   Shakti Prasanna Mohapatra, AGM/FM

Qualification : 
Master of Computer Applications (Utkal University), PG Diploma in Management (Xavier Institute of Management), CAIIB, Certificate in Risk Management (IIBF) and Certified Banking Compliance Professional (jointly by IIBF & ICSI)

Area of Specialization:
Banking and Finance, Risk Management, Supervision and Regulatory Compliance for Regional Rural Banks and Rural Cooperative Banks

Professional Experience:

Shakti Prasanna Mohapatra joined the Rural Development Banking Services (RDBS) of NABARD in 2011. He has extensive experience of being part of the Supervision function of NABARD across six states during his tenure. He has also served as District Development Manager (DDM), NABARD in Sundargarh and Jharsuguda districts of Odisha, during the course of which, he has been instrumental in formation of FPOs and monitoring of various development projects like Watershed development, TDF promoted Wadi, Livelihood Enterprise Development Programs, Financial Literacy and awareness programs.

Email : shakti.mohapatra@nabard.org                        Phone: 0824 2888510