Social Enterpreneurship

[rchandra1231]

Dear Friends,

We are 4 IRMANS who have started an organisation for bihar development registered as BIHAR DEVELOPMENT TRUST. Its a non government organisation which will operate in a profitable manner so that all of its operations are sustainable in long term.The surplus will be used for non economic development purposes like governance, primary education and health care services.The focus is development of bihar.
The idea is to create and share the wealth with 5 million people by year 2020 in Bihar.
Any discussion on enterpreneurship in social area of concern are welcome. we do not sacrifice. We are talking hardcore business principles that is applicable to development sector and obviously you have potential to make billions in transparent manner if you succeed. After all, you the enterpreneur and need to earn on ur risk.
Lets discuss .

Ravi Chandra

[rchandra1231]

Bihar Development Trust is an initiative by enterprising IRMANs. There was a burning desire to do something for Bihar development which was not possible while working outside Bihar. The plan is to create a platform on which professionals can aggregate not necessarily physically and collaborate to work for the development of Bihar. Bihar has huge non resident bihari population which is willing to help its motherland but unable to do so. The main reason we can come up is lack of honest platform and mistrust in government machinery to deliver services to the people. The other reason being law and order problems, lack of entrepreneurial activity, flight of capital and quality manpower, unemployment and high cost of capital. Thus, Bihar is caught in a vicious circle of low productivity, low income and low growth.
After a detailed brainstorming, it was decided to establish an organization for Bihar development aptly named BIHAR DEVELOPMENT TRUST which will work on various issues of development in Bihar so that people can move upward at least economically. The organization was registered as trust on March 26, 2007. We strongly feel that non government organizations can earn profit and use those profits for further social activities.
The organization will act as an honest platform for receiving support from Biharis and people who strongly feel about the development of Bihar. The idea is to implement the successful economic models like GRAMEEN MODEL, AMUL in context of Bihar to bring wealth of common people of Bihar. We plan to demonstrate that professionals can turn entrepreneur in Bihar and catalyze the growth of economic activity with the help of poor people. We dream of providing a success story to professionals as well as common people of India while working on ground with poor people in Bihar.
We are working on hope and faith that after our successful story, lots of professionals will come back to Bihar and implement their own dreams fuelling the growth of Bihar and surpass the glory of history.
We are living for that day………………………………………………………………….

[rchandra1231]

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Bihar Development Trust!
We have completed nine months of existence as organisation. It has received tremendous support from all of you since our inception as BIHAR DEVELOPMENT TRUST on March 26, 2007.
It has been a very interesting journey full of challenges like walking on glass edge. Our agenda is to build a most transparent organisation in the world where nothing is hidden. In doing this, I need constant criticisms, suggestions for improving our transparency level. Governance is very important aspect of it. We would like few of you who can and have inclination to take active role in BDT act as a catalyst of growth of BDT. It will mean visiting our operations, suggestions for improvement, raising finances and spreading the words of our work to the outer world to more people in your network in individual capacity. We want to build a world class institution which people should look up to. I am dreaming big but only after dreaming, you can wake up and execute your dreams. As Sony Akio Morita said 'flawless execution is the key". In our quest to build a world best organisation which improves the quality of life (health, education, financial condition) of millions of people who dream of living life with dignity and respect, we need support from all of you. We need support as idea level and execution level. We are on right track and need to go on till we achieve our goal
ww.bihardev.pbwiki.com.
We do have abstract goal of achieving dignity and respect. But to put on paper, We have dreamt of building a US$20 billion (may be euro as $ is going down) enterprise in Bihar by 2020. The areas of opportunities are very common ideas like microfinance, handloom and handicrafts, fruits and vegetable, Agricultural commodities, health care and education, power and rural BPO and tourism etc as we have no innovative ideas. We believe in executing those things in Bihar which many big companies finds unable to do it.
The details of goal is on www.bihardev.pbwiki.com .
Management people who have read the JIM COLLINS 'BUILT TO LAST'' may classify it as BHAG ie big hairy audacious goal. Yes, we are dreaming big. The 20 billion dollar/euro wealth will be created in partnership of 5 million people being associated with us. We hope to add 5 million people with us by year 2020 as producers/users of our service at Bihar. For that we may have to float different forms or organizations like producer companies, cooperatives, trust, societies, private ltd companies, NBFC, Banks or many more economic and legal entities which are best suitable to take the advantage of globalization as well as localization and most cost efficient.
The idea is to adapt GRAMEEN and AMUL model to Bihar context and in different services and commodities supported by most efficient technologies.
So to reach the 20 billion dollar/euro goal by 2020 in Bihar, I need support of all of you. For some of you, it may seem figment of imagination by a young people and young organisation which have not yet crossed one year of survival. To be frank, we don't know how we achieve this 'LAKSHYA' or goal but we will achieve it. There are many skeptical of achieving this goal, given the crime ridden scenario that the people not living in Bihar feel more. Crime has been there and will always be there as it is in Mumbai, Delhi or NewYork. But, it has not stopped the people making billions in those cities. So I feel few of the next new generation billionaire will come from Bihar along with other states.
Many people feel that talking so audaciously and big, we may invite the fate of Sanjay Ghosh or Manjunath or Sateyendra Dubey . How to avoid that fate is a challenge that we may face when we grow big. This question has no answers but we feel that we are not fighting against anyone. The solution may be creating a win-win scenario in which every stakeholder's benefits. We will work it out when the situation will arrive.
What is our self interest in doing this? Obviously we will also be making our billions. Only different thing is that it will benefit more than 5 million people or may be more and they will have more money in their pockets if we surpass our dreams.
Over last one year during my extensive travels, many people have wished me luck as well as not advised to get trapped in Bihar.
But the feeling or adrenalin rush that you feel while talking to the community, explaining our loan products or training our staff members or explaining people why you should join us beats everything that may give pleasure or anything else that money can buy. And master card is for those things. These are one of the things that MasterCard will not buy. I need people with MasterCard to support us and join us in the field to derive that pleasure.
So, why the mails was written to all of you? We have a work to do that is very important for the India and the whole world. I send 3000 mails per week and It will go on increasing as I met new people and gather new mail ids.
The mail has been written to all of you to help me in making Bihar Development Trust as a world class organisation. For which I need people who shares the similar ownership feelings towards Bihar Development Trust and believe in the dreams as articulated by it. I would like their help in improving governance, transparency and accountability to all stakeholders. The good practice of running an organisation so that it outlasts the longest running organisation of this millennium needs to be instituted right now. We are raw and we have still not learned the art of hiding as we have nothing to hide right now. But we feel that we need to be alert and vigilant right now so that we are not quagmire by the corruption that prevails in every big organisation. We want to account for every amount we get and pay and make billions in a transparent manner. So that you all can say that we achieved 20 billion dollar dream and you know how we achieved it.
Can anyone among the thousands who have read till this end will come forward to achieve that?

Regards
Ravi Chandra

[Mahip]

Post in this section:
Touching Lives - PaGaLGuY.com - The Everything of MBA, CAT 2007, GMAT, XAT, CAT 2008, SNAP, IIM, CAT 2007 Analysis Answer Key