Evolution Process Continues

It has been long time since I wrote anything on this blog. Facebook has taken the space for the small headlines. But for long write up, this is the place.

Over last one year and half, things were too hazy and tough but we persisted and waited for some divine moment of inspiration. The inspiration never came but small small steps towards survival guided our way forward. Only good thing that we did that we kept walking. We kept on moving despite having hazy vision and dark clouds.

At this moment of time, the path way forward is getting more clearer.

Bihar Development Trust as a non profit organisation will survive now.


BDT 2.0 will be different from last five years. The headlines will be changed. The focus will be sharp.It will become a professional led organisation with 100% dependence on grant and donation for its work. It will exit from the social business space over next five years and the space will be taken over by businesses in private limited company mode. Over the next five years, Its debt will reduced to zero and it will execute projects on grants only. Its main role will be to build community based institution and enable them to do business in this market economy. All this nurturing will be done by the support of grants only.The focus area of Bihar Development Trust is also getting delineated. It will work on bamboo and weaving thematic area. This will entails fields like livelihood promotion, institution building, capacity building, climate change, environment , sustainable development etc. We are planning to hand over the management of Bihar Development Trust to professionals by 2017. The idea is to transform Bihar Development Trust into a resource organisation on Bamboo and weaving over next five years. Marketing activity of Bamboo based programme and weaving based programme is in process of being shifted to private limited company form.

We have become more patient and preferring to go slow and focus on consolidation of the business processes.Lot of innovation and good HR practices have evolved after these two years of struggle of becoming focussed.

The faith has become stronger . The ability to survive has acquired a new meaning.
Lots of things are happening which will be shared in coming posts.