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Speaking on the latest trends in the corporate world, CEO of SREI SAHAJ e-Village Ltd. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Panigrahi says that transparency and data are the powerful tools in e-Governance; data is going to decide how you are going to do business. He also said that no business plans are perfect and they need to be changed regularly. He was speaking at the 'Youth to Business Forum 2010' organized by Manipal University in association with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad and SOIL, India on 18th September 2010 at the TMA Pai Convention Centre. "Entrepreneur is born, not made; you need to find the passion and fire within you , it is better to find it early because, if you fail you can always go back" says Mr. Ashwin Ramesh, CEO OrganicApex, the youngest CEO in India. "Don't do something which you don't understand; to become a successful entrepreneur you should always have the passion and love for whatever you are doing" says Mr. Ramesh. He also said "

April 21, 2010 In a large public gathering Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister, Government of India, today announced the disbursement of loan amounting to Rs 1. 25 lakh each to five Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) of Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd. Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd is a private sector organization which has taken up the task of providing wide array of government services through the Common Service Centre (CSC) framework across rural India. The loan was disbursed by S. Sridhar, CMD - Central Bank of India at the inauguration of a Central Bank branch by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at Margram in West Bengals Murshidabad district. In the presence of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Srei Sahaj CEO Dr. Sabahat Azim, COO Lt. Col. Sinha and CMO Major Ashutosh, Mr. S. Sridhar announced, Central Bank of India and Srei Sahaj have partnered to provide loans to 3,300 VLEs in the state of West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh within 3 months. This would be an active step in the im

Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, has joined hands with the State Bank of India (SBI), today to ensure financial inclusion of rural areas by offering SBI Banking services through Sahaj Rural Development Foundation (SRDF) through its Common Service Centres (CSCs) that Sahaj is setting up in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. Through this initiative, Sahaj will bring the biggest bank of the country to the doorstep of rural people. Srei Sahaj is committed to the task of eliminating the rural-urban divide and to make it happen, it has joined hands with State Bank of India to assist in financial inclusion by helping the rural population to enter the formal financial system by extending to them SBI banking services. Sahaj will offer its technology platform and its network of CSCs to the State Bank of India for Banking Correspondent SRDF. Sahaj will also provide other services like Insurance, Mutua