Three consultancy assignments were completed by us during the year; two from CARE-CASHE project and one from UCO Bank on behalf of their RRBs.  The UCO bank assignment was supplementary to the assignment we had completed during 2005-06. 

We have successfully bid for an assignment with Tamil Nadu Forest Development Corporation in collaboration with NABCONS.

During the year Faculty Members published articles on various topics like Financial Inclusion, Web Mining, Rural Housing Finance, Motivating Employees, Development of Micro and Small Enterprises, Effective monitoring of computerized bank branches in various reputed journals.  A Working Paper on “Micro Credit Action Research Project” with which the institution was associated till June 2005 was also published during the year.  One of the Faculty Members has written a book on Derivatives Trading in Agricultural Commodities titled “Krishi Jinso Mein Vayada Karobar”.

BIRD was associated with the preparation of Reading Material and Trainers’ Workbook for the Capacity Building of PACS functionaries under the reform package for Cooperatives as envisaged under the Vaidyanathan Committee report.  The modules and reading material developed by the Working Group, headed by the undersigned, were field tested in two States, viz; Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.