Mukesh Chandra Saran is the State Project Manager (Micro-finance) at the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, Patna, India. Mukesh specializes on financial inclusion issues and has worked on financial inclusion in the low income states of Bihar and Jharkhand for the last 12 years. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. His other areas of interest include social development and Education.