small ticket size, others followed the suit except Drishtee, which finance
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experimented with product refinement, designed an individual loan product
(Bada loan) only after ten years of its inception (Table 2). However, it met
failure in its offering of another innovative product, marriage loan, which
resulted in high frauds and portfolio at risk, as these loans were typically
used by the staff as well as the customers to cover up the late repayments.
This could also be seen in its mission and vision which talked about access
to micro credit services above other factors.
Even the new product development in Sonata took place after it reached
a sustainable scale and earn sufficient revenue for a new product design
(Table 2). A closer look at the mission and vision of Sonata answered the
question of its late entry into new product development which gave pref-
erence to the sustainability and profitability of organization in addition to
meeting the market demands. MIMO ventured into the new product devel-
opment as soon as it realized an opportunity. It saw a silver lining in financ-
ing the people to construct houses which could be typically given on rent.
Even the newly introduced micro-enterprise product was result of the same
thinking. Drishtee focused on its core technology based business that led to
development of entrepreneurs with kiosks. This was in line with Drishtee’s
mission and vision of making the people more efficient and self-sustained
(Table 2).
(b)
Promoters’ philosophy and role model
All these institutions except CFTS came into existence in a fairly mature
market. Sonata started its microfinance operations in 2006 followed by Drish-
tee and MIMO entering into microfinance around similar times. CFTS was
started a decade back from Sonata and drew its inspiration from “Grameen
model” in Bangladesh. As the promoters of Sonata worked with CFTS for
long, their institutional role model led to a modified and customized version
of their service delivery and product offerings. MIMO, on the other hand,
with his promoter having developmental experience of nearly two decades,
followed “Grameen model” of service delivery with some local modifications
as well to popularize similar products like Sonata and CFTS initially, as this
model and the product got wide publicity and success in India also. Con-
trary to this, Drishtee drew its inspiration of entering into microfinance from
H R Khan Committee established by the Reserve Bank of India (Khan,
2006). This was preceded by a need based survey (baseline survey) conduct-
ed with the help of a social venture capital fund – Acumen Fund.
The promoters of CFTS follow the philosophy of focusing on core busi-
ness product which is working with poor on small income generation loan.
In case of Sonata, the promoter believes on both demand based products and
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