HarVa
| Not For Profit Organization | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Rural Business process outsourcing |
| Founded 📆 | 2008 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Gurgaon, India |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Ajay Chaturvedi (Founder) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 500 |
| 🌐 Website | [Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] |
| 📇 Address | |
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HarVa is an Indian Business process outsourcing organization. [1] It is the first NPO set up in rural India which employs only women.[2] It also has a division, Community Based Farming & Waste Management, which trains men in latest farming techniques.
History
HarVa is the brainchild of entrepreneur Ajay Chaturvedi, an engineer from BITS Pilani and alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The company started its operations in March 2010 in Tikli Akilampur village, a few km from Gurgaon, Haryana. Shailesh Giri, a BITS Pilani alumnus, is the Chief Operations Officer and looks after the Haryana & Rajasthan branch.
Recently, HarVa acquired SourcePilani, one of India's first rural BPOs. Manoj Vasudevan (former CEO SourcePilani) serves as Vice President on the HarVa Board.
Company
HarVa means "Green" for the villages and stands for Harnessing Value of rural India. The company has hired about 500 rural women and started training them, and has deployed about 50 women on its first project.
The company plans to provide employment to 5,000 women across Haryana and Bihar by 2014.
References
- ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-24/delhi/28125776_1_bpo-project-business-process-outsourcing-village-women[permanent dead link]
- ↑ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/ITeS/Rural-NPOs-looking-good-to-become-a-phenomenon-in-Indian-outsourcing-story/articleshow/6254294.cms?curpg=1[dead link]
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External links
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