AMFI-WB: 8th Eastern India Microfinance Summit 2024 Microfinance Awards

The Awards shall be distributed on 22nd of February 2024 at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, HIDCO, New Town, Kolkata.

There will be a total of 4 awards given during the event across 2 categories.

For each award category, awards will be given for 2 groups. The distinction between these groups is done on the basis of the size of the players defined by RBI as per the Gross Loan portfolio (GLP).

Awards Category Established players (GLP >= 500 Cr) Startups & challengers (GLP < 500 cr)
Excellence in customer service and product distribution 1 1
Technology innovations to drive financial inclusion 1 1
Total no. of awards 2 2

The questionnaire for each category for responses as nomination which has been attached separately with this Summit Brochure.

AMFI-WB has been organizing the Eastern India Microfinance Summit over the past Eight years and it proposes to recognize contribution of various institutions towards Microfinance and are reaching out to all players within the Microfinance domain covering Universal banks, SFBs and MFIs & other players in microfinance domain.

Your nominations can be considered for any Two of the above categories. Your institution will be awarded in not more than ONE category. Therefore, we request you to submit your nominations for the categories you are best placed.

All the entries submitted in the prescribed format will be screened by the team for completeness and relevance. These entries will then be evaluated by a pre-jury panel, comprising of senior practitioners from SROs and microfinance experts, who will analyze entries across the five categories. There will be no award for any category receiving less than FIVE entries/nominations. The entries will then be judged by jury team.

Kindly send us the above information in the format enclosed by 15th of January 2024.

Please feel free to contact Mr. Asit Kumar Mitra, Mr. Harahari Biswas and Mr. Binayak Sarkar at: ceo@amfi-wb.org, info@amfi-wb.org, and finance@amfi-wb.org, for any further queries or clarifications in this regard.