National Bank Staff College

Dr. Gyanendra Mani, Chief General Manager is serving as Principal at National Bank Staff College (NBSC) since 11.02.2026. He has also served as Officer Incharge of Chhattisgarh RO, Gujarat RO, Uttarakhand RO and Arunachal Pradesh RO of NABARD. Earlier, he has also served in NABARD’s Odisha and Uttar Pradesh offices, Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and Head Office in Mumbai in various capacities. He has extensively contributed to areas like appraisal and evaluation of infrastructure and other investment projects, agriculture credit planning, financial inclusion, natural resource management, institution development, innovative interventions in farm & non-farm sectors, supervisory role for RFIs, policy inputs to GOI & State Govt on various agriculture & allied sectors including land leasing policy, etc.

Dr. Mani is a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Dr. Mani has immensely contributed academically with over more than 100 documents to his credit in form of books/study reports/ research papers in Indian and International Journals/newspapers, etc. He has handled several consultancy projects on behalf of NABARD including ‘Evaluation of SGSY Scheme’ for Min of Rural Development, GOI which was instrumental in replacing the SGSY by National Rural Livelihood Mission, presently in place. He had also Conceived & launched the ‘THE MICROFINANCE REVIEW’ Journal on behalf of Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and managed it initially in the capacity of ‘Managing Editor’ of the Journal. His other contributions include coordinating several National level seminars on Microfinance &, Agricultural Value Chains; conducting foreign exposure visits of senior bankers to Israel and Netherlands, etc. Govt of Arunachal Pradesh on its 33rd Statehood Day (20 February 2019) awarded GOLD Medal to Dr Mani in recognition of his meritorious service to the state of Arunachal Pradesh when he was Officer In charge of Arunachal Pradesh RO of NABARD. Have also served as Nominee Director on the Board of ‘Agricultural Insurance Company of India Limited’ (AICL), New Delhi, and as an Invitee on the Board of Gujarat State Coop Bank (GStCB), Ahmedabad.