TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bandyopadhyay, Tamal
TI  - Bandhan: the making of a bank
SN  - 9788184004984
U1  - 332.31092 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Penguin Random House India
KW  - Micro credit
KW  - Micro finance
KW  - Bank
KW  - Small bank
N2  - This is the story of Bandhan, the only bank that emerged in eastern India after Independence. Founded by the son of a sweet vendor, with a mere Rs 2 lakh, the sum total of his life savings.

On 17 June, 2015, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh stepped out of the Reserve Bank of India building in Mumbai with the much-coveted banking licence, beating some of the country’s top corporate houses. This moment compensated for all the frustrations that had come along the way. A year later, Bandhan Bank was launched with 6.7 million small borrowers.

So, how did Ghosh build India’s biggest MFI from scratch and then, along with his team, transform it into a universal bank? Bandhan: The Making of a Bank chronicles that journey.

This is also Ghosh’s personal story-of a boy growing up in small-town Agartala struggling with poverty, but relentless in his ambition to make it big. He battles competition, hostile moneylenders, a tough economic climate and the perpetual lack of resources. Nobody in India perhaps knows better than him the psyche of a small borrower and the alchemy of doing business with the poor, profitably.

This is one of India’s biggest entrepreneurial stories.

(https://www.penguin.co.in/book/bandhan/)
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