Details of Board Members

 

Sr. No	Name	Designation	Specialization
1	Mr Dattatray Chandar Bhujbal	President	Agriculture
2	Mrs. Kavita Pawan Raikar	Vice President	Accounting
3	Mr Pawan Vitthal Raikar	Secretary	Agriculture
4	Mr Sandip Motilal Mali	Member	Agriculture engg.
5	Mr. Macchindra Jaywant Gunage	Member	Agriculture
6	Mr. Pradip Ramchandra Kshirsagar	Member	Civil Engineer
7	Mr. Yadavrao Baga Padole	Member	Agriculture engg.
8	Mr. Balasaheb Dnyandev Bhagat	Member	Social expert
9	Mr. Prathmesh Shivaji Karape	Member	Social Expert

 

BIRD TODAY

BIRD today provides socio-technical support for ensuring water and food security and developing livelihoods through proper natural resource management, continuing its unique focus on the development and management of water resources. It reaches out to poor and marginalized communities throughout Maharashtra, particularly small and marginal farmers, landless, tribal, and others having urgent needs. Since 2015, BIRD as the Socio-technical organization is dedicated to providing short- and long-term institutional and technical support to organizations engaged in efforts to alleviate hunger, poverty and discrimination. It provides services in diverse regions of India. BIRD has worked in almost all districts of Maharashtra. BIRD works with communities to develop low-cost options for water and sanitation, agriculture & food security and rural livelihoods of poor women and men. It has increasingly engaged in the climate change and disaster risk reduction agenda, and sees this as strategic program area for the foreseeable future.

 PRESENCE IN THE NATION

Basic Initiatives for resource development (BIRD) is an NGO with strategic importance, presence and reputation. BIRD reaches out to rural communities through three field offices, strategically located in different states of Maharashtra with its head office at Shirur Block district Pune. Locations of field offices and area of operation are given below.