Representatives from CRISIL Foundation, Tania Pal and Biswajeet Das visited Darrang District and monitored the progress of Sakhis of the Moi Pragati programme. The representatives were contended seeing the headway our Sakhis were making on ground.

Moi Pragati aims to empower socially and economically disadvantaged sections of society by strengthening their financial capabilities. Moi Pragati Assam was launched by CRISIL Foundation in 2015 with the initial goal of empowering 100,000 rural women in six districts (Barpeta, Darrang, Goalpara, Kamrup, Morigoan and Nalbari) with RGVN as the project implementation partner.

After achieving significant improvement in awareness levels, CRISIL Foundation modified the intervention strategy to drive deeper and long-term behavioural change. Thus was born a cadre of community workers called ‘Sakhis’.

This cadre has helped in continual handholding support at the grassroots. Indeed, as of 2019, these sakhis have helped provide financial connectivity to around 1.18 lakh people across 400+ villages through facilitating access to government and state welfare schemes.