Megha Phansalkar

Mumbai

Sales/Business Development

Livelihood/Skills Development

Top Mgt (CEO, President, MD, Country Director/ Regional Representative, Executive Director)

Summary

From my basic profession as an urban and regional planner, where recently am working on the National Rural Livelihood Project through World Bank , I have decided to walk the talk. Under The NRLM project all artisans are promoted by the project and I keep meeting them during my field visits. I realized it’s easy to talk on rural products made by artisans and weavers regarding marketing, product development, forward linkages, etc. However it is necessary at some point of life to do what we preach. I have started a social initiative named "Tisser". This is French word for weave. The idea is to weave a network for array of rural products, mainly done by artisans and weavers from India. The next step is to use the proceeds from this to support girl child education of the respective rural artisans and weavers. This ensures that the movement supports the artisans and weavers in a respectable way. This is my maiden social initiative,Social Entrepreneurship for Creating a network of Rural b

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