Tejinder Singh Bhogal

Tejinder Singh Bhogal is a Development Consultant at NGOs and Government Organizations working on Rural Development. He focusses 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, recruitment and selection. A large part of his work involves holding workshops in the area of leadership, team building and conflict resolution. He has provided design and capacity building inputs to a World Bank supported Poverty Alleviation Program in Madhya Pradesh, India. One significant input has been the development of a manual for selecting Government personnel for Poverty Alleviation programs which outlines the practical steps involved in selecting right personnel. He also helped in developing a system of coaching for the personnel involved in the task of community development. His coaching inputs include understanding rural communities, developing a relationship of trust and confidence with them, and to promote effective village level groups and institutions.

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 worked on lift irrigation schemes that are assisted by the government, financed by banks and managed by the community.

Mr Bhogal has a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture with Honors in Plant Protection from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat.