::Prof. M. K. Awasthi::


	This website is to facilitate learning process of all those Business Enterprises, Policy Planners, Scientists, Academics, Professionals and Students who are engaged in agribusiness management, and rural and urban development activities. I firmly believe that through collaborative process we can improve living environment of people across the globe

Consultancy

Current Consulting Interests: Service Quality Management, Quality Management of Agribusiness Processes, Policy Priority Setting, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Planning for Rural Development.

Selected Consultancy/Research Works

Title of Project	Sponsoring Agency	Involved as	Year	Cost (INR - Millions)
Evaluation Study of Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program	Planning Commision, Govt. of India	Consultant	2010	6.9
Study of international flower market	Indian Council of Agril Research/ The World Bank	Researcher	2009	0.3
Learning and Capacity Development under National Agricultural Innovation Project	Indian Council of Agril Research/ The World Bank	Consultant and Team Leader	2008	35.2
Monitoring and Evaluation of NGOs working under innovative scheme if Uttar Pradesh Health Systems Development Project	The World Bank U.P. Health System Development Project, Lucknow	Consultant and Team Leader	2007	5.6
Assessment of Effectiveness of Farmers Field Schools in Addressing key issues critical to the sustainability of UPSLRP-II (UPBSN)	The World Bank, Uttar Pradesh Bhumi Shudhar Nigam	Consultant / Resource Person	2007	0.888
Study of Export Potential of Handicraft Products in Uttar Pradesh	Govt. of Uttar Pradesh	Consultant /Resource Person	2006	1
Preparation of Perspective plan for National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in 3 districts of U.P.	Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh	Consultant / Resource Person	2006	3
Impact Evaluation Study of NGOs working under Innovative Scheme of Uttar Pradesh Health System Development Project and Selection of New Support Organisation	World Bank aided project sponsored by U.P.Health System Development Project, Lucknow	Consultant / Resource Person	2006	2.511
Preparation of Perspective plan for National Food for Work Project (NFFWP) for 5 districts	Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh	Consultant / Resource Person	2005	5
Swajaldhara Evaluation of NGOs	SWSM	Consultant / Resource Person	2005	0.3

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Title of Project	Undertaken By	Sponsored By	Project Area	Year	Cost (INR - Millions)
Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy of Assam Rural and Infrastructural Agricultural Services Project of Government of Assam. Year	Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Assam Institute of Management,	The World Bank Capacity - Consultant and Project Coordinator	23 Districts of Assam	1999 - 2004	36.2
Socio Economic Impact Assessment of Rural Roads in Assam	Assam Institute of Management	The World Bank Capacity - Consultant and Project Coordinator	23 Districts of Assam	2004	0.3
Impact of Mechanization in Assam	Assam Institute of Management,	The World Bank Capacity - Consultant and Project Coordinator	23 Districts of Assam	2003	1.2

अमंत्रमक्षरं नास्ति नास्ति मूलमनौषधम्‌।
अयोग्यः पुरुषो नास्ति योजकस्तत्र दुर्लभः॥

There is no letter which doesn't have charm (curative property).

There is no root which doesn't have medicinal property.

There is no man who is not able. Rare is a person who knows its proper application.

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित् रमिहविद्यते

English Translation of Sanskrit quotation:
Here (in this world), there is nothing as pure(sublime) as knowledge.

न चोरहार्यं न च राजहार्यं न भ्रातृभ्राज्यं न च भारकारि।
व्यये कृते वर्धत एव नित्यं विद्याधनं सर्वधनप्रधानम्॥

It cannot be stolen by a thief.
It cannot taken away by a King.
It cannot be divided among brothers.
It does not cause load. It always increses when spent.
The wealth of knowledge is the greatest of all wealths.

"Na Twaham Kamye Rajyam, Na Swargam Na Punarbhavam
Kamye Dukh Taaptanam, Praninaam Arti Nashnam"

I don’t desire Lordship over others, neither I aspire for heavenly pleasures nor I pray to be released from bondage of birth and death, My ambition is to become an instrument of relieving the suffererings of those who are groaning under the scourage of one or the other disease.