Niranjan Sheelavant has worked with grass-root NGOs & a cooperative bank for 4 years and followed with freelance consulting. He has professional association with renowned companies like Basix & MicroSave which motivated him to plunge in to social-entrepreneurship and thus ventured in Social Entrepreneurship with Nirantara Community Services. He believes consider microfinance as a vital tool for poverty reduction combined with need-based development interventions, miracles can be achieved at the BoP. He has a decade of experience in the social enterprise sector and is actively involved in micro-banking, Economic Development, Education, Agriculture Extension, Livelihoods, Community organization and Natural Resources Management.