Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society

Government of Assam created the Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society in November 1998, as an autonomous body, headed by the Chief Secretary, Assam, as its President (Project Guidance Council) and the Agriculture Production Commissioner, Assam as the Chairman (Governing Body). The Project Coordination Unit (PCU) is the head quarter of the Society, which is headed by a State Project Director. The key mandate of the Society is to manage, coordinate, implement World Bank aided projects and any other externally funded projects as authorized by the State Government, and to monitor the implementation performance of the line departments of the projects.
The Society has successfully completed two World Bank aided projects (ARIASP: 1995-2004 and AACP: 2005-2011 including AACP-AF:2012-2015) and the Bank has rated performance of these projects as Satisfactory. The Society contributed in mainstreaming many of the good practices that emerged from the projects into various schemes of the State Government. ARIASS has proved to be a path finder and innovator in the areas of targeting the intended beneficiaries, employment generation, reaching out to the vulnerable and the disabled and overall good governance and social accountability.
The organizational structure in the PCU, is a vivid example of how few but especially skilled staff members can join together to fulfill a common vision. The ambience of the PCU is an icon of corporate work culture within the Govt. of Assam, with complete dedication and perseverance. The continuous and dedicated efforts of the Society has motivated World Bank to opine that the ARIASS has built enough capacity on Procurement & Financial Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social & Environmental Safeguards and has been able to generate evidence-based strategies for rural development.
An important institutional innovation by the Society has been the enhanced role assumed by communities in decision making. The project has pioneered a highly Innovative Community-Procurement system with unique procurement process that not only enhanced community role in procurement decision making, but also brought in the economies of scale that enabled beneficiary farmers to buy pumps at rates cheaper than the market rates without compromising on the quality. The Innovative Farmer Friendly Community Procurement Model of ARIAS Society under AACP for irrigation, mechanization and fisheries sub-component, gives authority of procurement decisions to the farmer groups. The Bank and the Government of India (GoI) recognized this model as one of the ‘good practices’ which was published in a document captioned “Innovation in Development.” The GoI circulated this document to all the states for adoption. The model also received national and international recognition. Based on the success of this approach, community procurement has been mainstreamed into the regular operations of Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries. The project also ensured that women were adequately represented in the community procurement and social audit committees
ARIASS follows a ‘mission mode’ implementation-approach in all its endeavours, instead of the usual ‘program mode’ approach. Challenges are meant for the brave, which ARIAS Society has been addressing in a holistic manner. Dreams are meant to be fulfilled, only the path towards it has to be discovered, which the ARIAS Society has been religiously carving, based on its over 16 years of rich experience in managing World Bank aided projects.

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Memorandum of Association

(As Amended in March 2012)

and Rules of Business

(As Amended in March 2012)

and Bylaws

(As Amended in 28th July 2017)

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1. ARIAS Society -Memorandum of Association (As amended in March2012)
2. ARIAS Society -Rules of Business ( As amended in March,2012)
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Official List

Name
Designation
  • Shri Virendra Mittal, IAS
    State Project Director
  • Sri Bipul Phukan
    Chief Financial Controller
  • Sri Amarendra Deka
    Asstt. Procurement Engineer cum Road Coordinator
  • Dr. Sanjay Sarma
    Fishery Coordinator
  • Dr. Bidyut Jyoti Das
    Dairy Coordinator
  • Sri. Alakesh Malla Baruah
    Sericulture Coordinator
  • Sri Ajiuddin Ahmed
    Junior Assistant
Name
Designation
  • Sri Pranab Kumar Mahanta
    Agriculture Adviser
  • Sri Mustaqur Rahman
    Senior Project Advisor
  • Sri Baljeet Singh
    Market Analyst cum Operation Specialist
  • Sri Gautam Goswami
    Agribusiness Specialist
  • Sri Sreemant Phukan
    Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
  • Sri Atanu Chatterjee
    Environment Management Specialist
  • Sri Priti Ranjan Dash
    Procurement and Contract Management Specialist
  • Smti Dimple Sonari Das
    Public Information cum Communication Specialist
  • Sri Devaroon Sabhapandit
    Private Sector Development Specialist
  • Sri Nitin Ashok Kumar Singh
    Financial Service Specialist
  • Sri Kh. Manash Singha
    Human Resources Specialist
  • Sri Probin Kumar Bharali
    Cluster Coordinator
  • Smti Sheetal Sarma
    Social Safeguard Management Specialist
  • Sri Yudhvir Singh Dabas
    Post Harvest Management Specialist
  • Sri Deepak Gogoi
    Sr. Accounts Manager
  • Sri Satyajit Das
    Financial Management Specialist
  • Sri Ripunjoy Deka
    Asstt. Civil Engineer
  • Sri Manoj Pathak
    Financial Inclusion Specialist
  • Sri Dipankar Baruah
    MIS Specialist
  • Sri Gunajit Nath
    Junior MIS Specialist
  • Sri Abhishek Koundinya
    System Administrator
  • Sri Kuldweep Chakravorty
    Jr. FM Specialist
  • Sri Jwala Prasad Upadhaya
    Jr. FM Specialist
  • Sri Nayan Baruah
    Jr. FM Specialist
  • Sri Tanmoy Saha
    Jr. FM Specialist
  • Sri Prasenjit Chaliha
    Procurement Management Executive
  • Smti Runa Handique
    Procurement Management Executive
  • Sri Dharma Kanta Medhi
    M&E Executive
  • Sri Dipankar Choudhury
    Assistant Administrative Officer
  • Smti Bably Hazarika
    HR Assistant
  • Smt. Mamta B. Sarma
    Sericulture Marketing Specialist
  • Smt. Monalisa Hazarika
    Institutional Development cum Publicity Expert
  • Sri Raj Kumar Deka
    Project Management Executive
  • Sri Jayanta Talukdar
    Project Management Executive
  • Smt. Joymala Dutta Oja
    Project Management Executive
  • Smt. Chuity Nandi
    Monitoring & Evaluation Executive
  • Smt. Anu Kalita
    Monitoring & Evaluation Executive
  • Smt. Priyakshi Barooah
    Procurement Management Executive
  • Smt. Kangkana Deka
    Procurement Management Executive
  • Sri Debajit Mitra
    MIS Executive
  • Sri Kaushik Parasar
    MIS Executive
  • Sri Chandan Das
    Office Management Executive

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