Tejinder BHOGAL

Biography

Tejinder Singh BHOGAL is a freelance Development Consultant working with NGOs and Government Organizations working on Rural Development. His current professional interests focus on providing Organizational Development (OD) and Capacity Building support to such organizations. He is also involved in helping development organizations resolve internal conflict, as well as to develop mechanisms of monitoring individual performance, as well as of recruitment and selection. A large part of his work involves holding workshops in the area of leadership, team building, conflict resolution.

Among other things he has provided design and capacity building inputs to a World Bank supported Poverty Alleviation program in Madhya Pradesh, India. One significant input in this regard has been the development of a manual for selecting Government personnel for Poverty Alleviation programs. This Manual outlines the practical steps involved in selecting personnel who have the appropriate Motivational profile for working with communities.

Another input vis-a-vis the above mentioned program has been to develop a system of coaching for the personnel involved in the task of community development. His coaching inputs include how to understand rural communities, how to develop a relationship of trust and confidence with them, and how to promote effective village level groups and institutions.

Prior to his current work he has also worked with the National Dairy Development Board's Fruit and Vegetable project in West Bengal and the hyper-saline Bhal track along the Gulf of Cambay. He is interested in the concept of lift irrigation schemes that are assisted by the government, financed by banks and managed by the community. He has a bachelor's degree in agriculture with honors in plant protection from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He also has a post graduate diploma in rural management from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat.

This biography was last updated on May 24, 2006