Background
Datta is a Development Evangelist, well known for his work in the field on livelihood support, as a part of institutions like PRADAN and BASIX. He was a professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and leading the Livelihood Initiative of the university as well as a Member of the Faculty of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Having started his journey as a Spearhead Team Leader organizing soybean farmers in central parts of India, he continued working with small rural producers as part of the founding teams of BASIX/ Indian Grameen Services along with Vijay Mahajan, Deep Joshi, and PRADAN, two notable livelihood promotion and support institutions of India before joining the university. He was also the member of faculty ofEarly life
Sankar Datta was born February 17, 1958, in Jamshedpur, Bihar, India. He spent his early childhood inAcademic background
Datta's early school education was done at Patha Bhavana, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, an institution founded by Rabindranath Tagore. He completed his post-graduation in Rural Management fromProfessional career
As an academic
*Datta is presently Professor, leading the Livelihood Initiatives. *He was the Dean oAs a practitioner and development professional
Datta has been closely associated with promotion of Rural Livelihoods as a Practitioner. * He was in-charge of operations while setting up the BASIX group of Companies, a new generation livelihood support institution * He had initiated and headed the first livelihood project oOther professional engagements
* Served on the Board of several institutions including Indian Grameen Services, Village Financial Services Ltd, IndusTree Crafts Ltd. Purbanchal Maitree Development Society. * Member of the Advisory Committee of Center for Management in Agriculture (CMA) of the IIM-Ahmedabad * Member of the Livelihood Advisory Group of the Sustainable Livelihoods India Initiative organized by ACCESS Development Services. * Member of the Planning Commission Working Group for the 12th Five-Year Plan on MGNREGA.Publications
Apart from presenting various papers on the livelihood challenges faced by the poor in various national and international forums he has published several books. One of his frequently used publications is thExpertise
*Rural Development in General and livelihood promotion & support in specific. *Dry land farming and Value Chain Management *Gandhian economics for supporting livelihoods *Value Chain DevelopmentReferences
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20130824202925/http://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/sankar-datta *http://jstor.org/stable/4405894 *http://jstor.org/stable/40279309 *https://archive.today/20150209102208/http://epw.in/authors/sankar-datta *http://in.linkedin.com/in/sankardatta *http://sagepub.in/authorDetails.nav?contribId=658846 *http://financialeducationsummit.org/2007/speakerinfo.php?profile=datta *http://microlinks.kdid.org/learning-marketplace/blogs/2011-seep-annual-conference-sankar-datta-need-integrated-financial-servic *http://69.89.31.196/~basixind/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=138 *https://web.archive.org/web/20130728012236/http://www.village.net.in/board_of_directors/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20130731010623/http://igsindia.org.in/about-us/board-members *https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/12793/701640ESW0P1250ings000LowResolution.txt?sequence=2 *http://dscindia.org/UserFiles/Downloads/DSC-LARA-2-Livelihood-010411.pdf?typ.. *http://indiamicrofinance.com/sankar-datta-livelihood-school.html *http://mymaitri.org/our_board.html *http://sagepub.in/books/Book238935?prodTypes=any&seriesId=Series2195&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1 *http://uk.sagepub.com/books/Book238935?seriesId=Series2195&fs=1 *http://swb.co.in/author-info/7039 *http://accessdev.org/downloads/soil_report_2010.pdf *http://mainumby.org.bo/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Bangalore-meeting-report-FINAL.pdf *http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G02735.pdf *https://web.archive.org/web/20150209155841/http://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/talk-apu-community-university-aesthetic-rabindranath-pedagogy-and-festival *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3bfMf21c14 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100211125500/http://www.indiadevelopmentblog.com/2009/01/almost-live-blogging-basix-and-sks.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20130705090127/http://aajeevika.gov.in/studies/pradan-publications/wpc-report.pdf *http://dscindia.org/UserFiles/Downloads/DSC-LARA-2-Livelihood-010411.pdf?typ.. *http://lawbooks.com.au/book-search/search.do?authorName=%22Sankar%20Datta%20(Livelihood%20School%20and%20Indian%20Grameen%20Services,%20Hyderabad)%22&txtQuery=%22Sankar%20Datta%20(Livelihood%20School%20and%20Indian%20Grameen%20Services,%20Hyderabad)%22&searchBy=author {{DEFAULTSORT:Datta, Sankar 1958 births Living people 20th-century Bengalis People from Jamshedpur