Gramin Suvidha Kendra (GSK)

DSCL- Shriram

DSCL has strong brand equity reflective of credibility, ethical values and consistent high quality product image. With over 30 years of experience in managing large scale process industries with sustained high level of performance, DSCL meets the needs of a wide range of customers from farmers to industrial users, from house builders to business owners.
DSCL along with its sister concern, Shriram Bioseed, were the first Agri input company to partner in GSK platform in kharif-06. Their ‘Rajkumar’ variety in Maize was one of the most popular seed in the whole region. Their fertilizer Shriram Poshak and pesticide Shriram Gold are in huge demand among the farmers.

India Post

India Post, with a network of 1,55,516 post offices (with 1,25,148 in rural areas) across approx 5,94,000 villages across the country, provides the unparalleled reach and depth to take across any offering right at the doorstep of farmers. As the minimum level of infrastructure remains available with each post office, it helps to minimize the project cost. Also, because of standard character of established and time-tested systems and processes with India Post, scalability becomes much easier. Postal department may boast of belonging to that elite group of state agencies which enjoys deep trust, faith and acceptability among the rural populace. Because of this, the lead time requirement for generating acceptability of the offerings among the beneficiaries also becomes considerable less. This factor also helps in easily roping in other associated partners because of high reputation and non-controversial nature of the postal; department. Last but not the least; it minimizes the efforts required on various government agencies to get their support and compliance for the project.

Mahyco seeds

Established in 1964, Mahyco seed is pioneer and leader in Indian Seed Industry. It is the first private enterprise in India to produce and market hybrids of cotton, sorghum, sunflower and wheat. It is also the first company to grow and market transgenic Bollgard cotton in 2002.
As at most of the GSK project locations, Mahyco is the most popular seed company, farmers have benefited a lot, from Mahyco’s participation in GSK platform.

Pioneer

Pioneer began India research and parent seed operations in India in 1970. PHI is world’s leading agriculture genetics company. It has around 35 individual products and is among the leading brands in rice, pearl millet, corn and mustard Hybrids. As our GSK location in U.P. and Maharashtra are rich in rice and corn, with PHI joining the GSK platform farmers are now able to avail quality agri inputs at the best price.

Dhanuka

DHANUKA AGRITECH LIMITED handles crop care business of Dhanuka Group. The core strength of the company lies in its vast distribution network spread in the interiors of rural India through 27 branch offices, 1000 plus techno-commercial staff and 15,000 highly dedicated dealers. It has 4 modern manufacturing facilities at Gurgaon and Sohna in Haryana, Sanand in Gujarat and Udhampur in J&K for formulation of various grades of pesticides, fungicides, miticides, weedicides, plant growth stimulants, plant growth regulators, foliar fertilizers and sticking agents. It also has 2 Seed Processing Units at Mandideep in M.P. and Turkapalli (Hyderabad) in Andhra Pradesh. Dhanuka has joined the GSK platform to reach out to GSK farmers and have already sold tier products at Jalgaon GSK center.

Syngenta

Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2006 were approximately $8.1 billion. Syngenta employs around 21,000 people in over 90 countries.
Syngenta have joined the GSK platform to reach out to its customers directly. Syngenta also be conducts various farmer awareness programs for promoting their products and capacity building of farmers for integrated pest management services.

National Bulk Handling Corporation (NBHC)

National Bulk Handling Corporation Ltd. (NBHC), an ISO 9001: 2000 & ISO 22000:2005 certified company, is a national-level end-to-end solution provider in procurement, warehousing, bulk handling, grading and inspection, commodity care and pest management, collateral management and disposal of commodities. Set up in April 2005, NBHC is a subsidiary of Financial Technologies (India) Limited (FTIL), global leader providing technology solutions for the financial services industry.
It has successfully established a network of 363 warehouses across 17 states and union territories in India and with over 13.50 Lakh MT of capacity. In the process, it has facilitated funding worth Rs.3000+ Crore. Also, it has assets worth over Rs.3000+ Crore (10 lakh MT+) under collateral management under tie-up arrangements with Banks.
NBHC has tie-ups with twenty one leading banks for collateral management services. Through this service, it practically eliminates the risk in warehouse receipt financing business and this is the reason why farmers of “Gramin Suvidha Kendra” may access the loans without much difficulty

Mahindra Shublabh

Mahindra Shublabh is a part of the Mahindra Group established under the Mahindra Agribusiness in 2000, with an equity stake from International Finance Corporation (IFC, Washington).
Mahindra Agribusiness has taken a direct initiative in launching its brand of wheat, maize, sunflower, groundnut and a range of vegetable seeds as well as agro chemicals. In addition, the Company has also acquired land in Pune to set up a Research & Development facility for seeds and saplings.
Mahindra Shublabh is the most recent partner to join the GSK platform.

BIOSEED

DSCL has strong brand equity reflective of credibility, ethical values and consistent high quality product image. With over 30 years of experience in managing large scale process industries with sustained high level of performance, DSCL meets the needs of a wide range of customers from farmers to industrial users, from house builders to business owners. DSCL along with its sister concern, Shriram Bioseed, were the first Agri input company to partner in GSK platform in kharif-06. Their 'Rajkumar' variety in Maize was one of the most popular seed in the whole region. Their fertilizer Shriram Poshak and pesticide Shriram Gold are in huge demand among the farmers.

Bayer Crop Science

Bayer CropScience, with an annual sales of about EUR 5.8 billion one of the world's leading innovative crop science companies in the area of crop protection (Crop Protection), non agricultural pest-control (Environmental Science), seeds and plant biotechnology (BioScience). Headquartered in Monheim, Germany, Bayer CropScience is a global provider of crop solutions, products and services, and is one of the leading companies in the key segments of the worldwide agrochemical markets.
Bayer and MCX have collaborated to open a new GSK center at Ron Sub Post office in Gadag district of Karnataka.

Weather Risk Insurance Management services Pvt ltd

Weather Risk Insurance Management services Pvt ltd, a Kanpur based company offering customized crop specific products. Specific training will be provided by WRIMs company representative to GSK coordinator, who will act as agent selling their products. BPM’s will be briefed on how it operates

Eureka Forbes Limited (EFL)

Eureka Forbes Limited (EFL) is a Rs. 1003 crore (US$ 250.75million) multi-product company. Yet, despite strenuous efforts the market has barely been scratched. Tens of millions of homes are in desperate need of water purification systems and need to be shown how the cost of medical attention may actually be much greater than the cost of prevention.

Its flagship brands in the water purification and cleaning categories, Aquaguard and Euroclean, have both been elevated to Superbrand status The Company has been a two time winner of both the Asia MAKE as well as the India MAKE awards, making Eureka Forbes the knowledge champion in both Asia and India. The company was given the prestigious UNESCO-Water Digest Award 2007/08 for being The Complete Domestic Water Solutions Provider in the UV, UF, Nano and RO categories.

Aries Agro Limited

Aries is India’s largest and most reputed manufacturers and marketers of Chelated Micronutrient Fertilizers. Aries offers its customers the widest choice of products in the micro-fertilizer sector, ranging from individual elements to mixed micro-fertilizers. They also cover value added secondary nutrients and water soluble NPK complex fertilizers. Aries probably is the only company in India to have developed crop and soil specific formulations for all major crops in the country including exotic crops like potato, citrus, cardamom, pepper, cumin seed etc.

JK Agri Genetics Ltd

JK Agri Genetics Ltd (JKAL) is one of the leading agri-biotech hybrid seed companies of India with pan Indian presence. The company, a member of the esteemed JK Organisation, was established in 1989 with headquarters at Hyderabad. The activities of the company include breeding and biotech research, seed production, processing and marketing of hybrid seeds. JKAL is engaged in developing superior hybrids of Bajra, Jowar, Maize, Cotton, Sunflower, Rice, and Vegetables. The company has earned name for itself among the farming community of India through its quality products. With full commitment to drive its vision to grow as a technology based company, while providing solutions to the biggest challenges in crop protection and production through advanced biotechnology applications, JKAL conceptualized Biotechnology Research Centre in 1999.

Devgen Seeds and Crop Technology Pvt. Ltd.

DEVGEN is a world-leading agribusiness company committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and high-value commercial seeds market. It has Pearl millet, Sorghum, Paddy and Sunflower seeds in its portfolio and has presence across India states. Devgen has joined the GSK platform and will make available quality branded seeds to GSK farmers.

Pratham Books

Pratham Books is a children's book publisher with a difference. It is a not-for-profit trust that was set up in 2004 with the objective of publishing high quality, low cost books in Indian languages and giving Indian children the opportunity to read interesting books that they can identify with in their own language. Its mission is to see "A book in every child's hand".

Forward Markets Commission (FMC)

Forward Markets Commission (FMC) headquartered at Mumbai, is a regulatory authority which is overseen by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Govt. of India. It is a statutory body set up in 1953 under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952.

" The Act provides that the Commission shall consist of not less than two but not exceeding four members appointed by the Central Government out of them being nominated by the Central Government to be the Chairman thereof. Currently Commission comprises three members among whom Shri B.C. Khatua, IAS, is the Chairman, Shri Rajeev kumar Agarwal, IRS and Shri D.S.Kolamkar, IES are the Members of the Commission."

National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD)

NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. It also has the mandate to support all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promote integrated and sustainable rural development and secure prosperity of rural areas. In discharging its role as a facilitator for rural prosperity NABARD is entrusted with

Providing refinance to lending institutions in rural areas
Bringing about or promoting institutional development and
Evaluating, monitoring and inspecting the client banks

National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL)

National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) is a National level Institutionalized, Electronic, Transparent Spot trading platform, which is poised to transform the rural economy by way of improving marketing efficiency for agricultural produce. It is a state-of the-art organized and structured market place providing facilities for risk free and hassle free procurement and selling of farm produce. NSEL provides customized solutions to various problems faced by the farmers, traders, processors, exporters, importers, arbitrageurs, investors and the general mass relating to agricultural marketing, storage, warehouse receipt financing, etc. The main objective of National Spot Exchange is to improve farmers’ realization without increasing price paid by the consumers through making structural reforms in agricultural marketing process. This is achievable by reducing cost of intermediation and creating an electronic linkage between arrival centers and consumption centers across the country. Trading on National Spot Exchange provides the participants immunity from the credit risk and counter party defaults, as all trades are guaranteed by the Exchange. The Spot Exchange is based on the principle that it provides an organized and centralized trading environment with the facility to access the market electronically & remotely and providing trading in the quality and quantity specified commodities. National Spot Exchange commenced its live operations on 15th Oct, 2008. At present NSEL is operational in 7 states, providing delivery based spot trading for 17 commodities

Ion Exchange India

Ion Exchange India is a premier company in water and environment management with a strong international presence. Formed in 1964, as a subsidiary of the Permutit Company of UK, Ion Exchange became a wholly Indian company in 1985 when Permutit divested their holding. Currently employ 1,000 people - multi-disciplinary teams of highly experienced professional managers technologists and scientists, supported by a widespread infrastructure in India and abroad.

Ministry of Panchayati Raj

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a branch of the Government of India looking after the ongoing process of decentralization and local governance in the States. Ministry of Panchayati Raj is responsible for the work of advocacy for and monitoring of the implementation of Constitution 73rd Amendment Act the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act.

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is Asia's largest information technology consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organization. Envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. With over 1,40,000 world class IT consultants located in 42 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location.

Tata Swach

'Tata Swach' Nanotech Water Purifier is a instance of collaboration between various Tata group companies. It was an idea originated by TCS and subsequently picked up by TATA Chemical Limited (TCL). TCL is a global company with interests in chemicals, crop nutrition and consumer products. The company is a pioneer and market leader in the Indian branded iodised salt segment and India's leading producer of nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizer. TATA Swach® is the world's lowest cost purifier, providing safe drinking water at 10 paise per liter, with a Vision to reduce the incidence of water borne diseases by making safe drinking water accessible to the "Have-not's".

Cairn

In India, Cairn has been developing its interests for more than a decade. Cairn India is now one of the biggest private exploration and production companies currently operating in the region. The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Cairn India attracted a number of high quality investors (including PETRONAS, which holds 12.67%) thereby signifying investor confidence in the Indian equity story, the regulatory environment and the capital markets. Cairn India is committed to continuing investment in India and is very much focused on creating shareholder value by developing its world class resource base in Rajasthan and seeking to continue its track record of exploration success.

ekgaon

ekgaon technologies delivers information management solutions for the livelihood needs of rural and under-served clients. It offers a portfolio of tools to access banking, citizen and agricultural services that link rural markets to sources of financial support and other services in the formal arena. Ekgaon ensure cost effective service delivery by using mobile phones and other communication devices to transmit verified and secured transaction information

Ambuja Cement Foundation

Ambuja Cement Foundation is the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of Ambuja Cements Ltd; and works with communities in and around the Company’s plants in twenty locations in eleven states. Ambuja Cement Foundation focuses on developing communities through its programs on Agro & skill based livelihood, Natural Resource Management, Health, Education and Women’s empowerment.

Greenlight Planet India Pvt Ltd.

Greenlight Planet is a social enterprise that makes ultra affordable solar lighting solutions for more than 1.6 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity and rely on dirty, dim, and dangerous kerosene lanterns for their lighting needs. We aim to bring clean, affordable, and high quality solar lighting products into the homes of families in rural villages all over the world. With our products children can study at night, breadwinners can extend their income earning hours, and families are able to significantly increase their savings. Within a year of displaced kerosene consumption, our solar lantern has entirely paid for itself and families enjoy a net savings for years and years.

Green Village Ventures

Green Village Ventures started in 2007 focused on bringing green solutions to rural communities and contributing towards sustainable development. It helps to build integrated solutions for meeting global sustainable development requirements for renewable energy, reduction of greenhouse gases, and poverty alleviation. Green Village Ventures is committed to developing innovative sustainable green solutions for investors, partners, and policy makers which addresses core global sustainability issues while producing investment grade returns.

IGO

In 1981, MIRC Electronics Ltd was formed with the goal of manufacturing Colour televisions with the brand name Onida. Since then superior products, a cutting-edge advertising strategy and a purposeful marketing ensured that Onida became a household name. In 2002, IGO was born as a second brand with a vision of taking high quality and durable Colour televisions to the masses. IGO’s mission is to benefit society at large through innovation and quality. It is with this mission in mind that IGO has extended its existing product basket to include LED based Lanterns and Torches-Battery driven versions.