Kamal Jeet
Founder Director Kisan Sanchar
Qualifications
- Master of Science in Food Science and Technology from CCS Haryana Agricultural
University, Hisar 1997-2000. - L.L.B. & LLM. From Department of Law, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak,
Haryana, India. Specialization in Farmer Producer Companies. - Organic Leadership Course, IFOAM ACADEMY (March 2012- November 2012)
- Master Class Organic Leadership Course, IFOAM ACADEMY 23 April to 29 April 2017
- Possessing 15 years of expertise in the Panchayati Raj sector, spanning across Haryana
and Punjab.
Journey of Kisan Sanchar began in 2007 when, after three years of working with Innovators and enterprenuers it was realized that the market was highly organized and dominated by corporations. There was little scope for innovators and traditional knowledge holders, with all communication systems and channels controlled by the market. This highlighted the need for a neutral channel to promote innovators and traditional knowledge holders.
In 2008, Kamal Jeet joined Hafed’s Basmati Contract Farming Project. Sh. D.P. Rattan, the then General Manager of Marketing, told Kamal Jeet that his performance would not be assessed based on the number of contracts facilitated between farmers and Hafed. Instead, it would be measured by the number of farmers who returned to sell their contracted produce at Hafed purchase centers. The detailed story can be read here.
The success story of increasing purchases from farmers was shared with Dr. S.P. Goyal, the then in-charge of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kurukshetra. In the Kharif season of 2009, KVK Kurukshetra asked Kamal Jeet to provide technology for disseminating technical content to 4,000 farmers in the Kurukshetra District. Based on the findings of this experiment, a case study was developed and presented at the Annual KVK Conference.
This led to the involvement of ICAR, which provided Kamal Jeet the opportunity to develop a messaging system for 75 KVKs under Zone-1 of ICAR to send messages to farmers.
On 1st November 2010, www.kisansanchar.com was launched. Shveta Gupta designed the logo for Kisan Sanchar and managed communication with the 75 KVKs of Zone-1 and around 25 KVKs of Zone-7 (Gujarat and Rajasthan). Rishabh Bhamral developed the messaging system.
On 23rd July 2011, Kisan Sanchar won the Vodafone Mobile for Good Award, from Vodafone India Foundation, Digital Empowerment Foundation to scale up www.kisansanchar.com.
In March 2012, Kamal Jeet and Divya Goswami formally incorporated Kisan Sanchar as a company under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act 1956.
List of projects completed
| S.N. | Year | Name of Project | Organization | Status |
| 1. | 2000 | Organic Certification of Farmers in Haryana Punjab and Uttar Pradesh | Indian Organic Food | Successfully Delivered |
| 2. | 2001-2006 | Scouting of Green Grassroots Innovations and Best Example of Traditional Knowledge in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand | National Innovation Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 3. | 2006 | Mentoring of grassroots innovators for developing their innovations in to enterprise | Honey Bee Network | Successfully Delivered |
| 4. | 2007 | Training of trainers and farmers leaders on scouting of innovations and problem solving in Bundelkhand area of Uttar Pradesh. | Oxfam GB Lucknow | Successfully Delivered |
| 5. | 2007 | Agri Extension Services to Contract Farmers of Desi Wheat C 306 in Mewat, Rewari and Jhajhar Districts of Haryana. | Hafed Panchkula | Successfully Delivered |
| 6. | 2008 | Agri Extension Services to Contract Farmers of Basmati Paddy CSR 30 in Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra Districts of Haryana | Hafed Panchkula | Successfully Delivered |
| 7. | 2009 | Agri Extension Services to Contract Farmers of Basmati Paddy CSR 30 in Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra Districts of Haryana | IKSL-New Delhi | Successfully Delivered |
| 8. | 2010 – 2013 | Contract Farming and Organic Farming of Basmati Paddy, Desi Wheat and Barley | Hafed Panchkula | Successfully Delivered |
| 9. | 2010 -12 | Dissemination of Agro Advisories to 75000 farmers in association with Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir, Delhi, Gujrat and Rajasthan. | Zonal Project Director ICAR Zone-1, Ludhaian & Zone 7 Jodhpur | Successfully Delivered |
| 10. | 2012 | Dissemination of messages related to financial Inclusion through printing of 300000 school notebooks and impact evaluation. | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 11. | 2013 | Development of 60 Climate Smart Villages through dissemination of Weather Intelligence to farmers. | CIMMYT | Successfully Delivered |
| 12. | 2014 | Development of web application for conducting of mobile surveys | CIMMYT & Michigan State University | Successfully Delivered |
| 13. | 2014 | Identifying and Organizing 400000 farmers in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar , Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu and delivering Agro Advisory Services through IT Enabled Platform | CABI | Successfully Delivered |
| 14. | 2015 | Identifying and organizing 30,000 Agribusinesses in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan | CABI | Successfully Delivered |
| 15. | 2016 | Dissemination of weather Intelligence among 6000 beneficiaries of Meetha Sona Project | Solidaridad | Successfully Delivered |
| 16. | 2016 | Dissemination of Daily Market Prices to farmers via 23 Community Radio Stations | Wingify Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 17. | 2016 | Organizing Farmer Beneficiaries in a Producer Company and providing Hand Holding support in PANIPAT | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 18. | 2016 | Organizing Farmer Beneficiaries in a Producer Company and providing Hand Holding support in AMBALA | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 19. | 2017 | Organizing Farmer Beneficiaries in a Producer Company and providing Hand Holding support in YAMUNANAGAR | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 20. | 2017 | Organizing Farmer Beneficiaries in a Producer Company and providing Hand Holding support in SONEPAT | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 21. | 2017 | Natural Resource Conservation and Improving Livelihood of Farmers by dissemination of Authentic and Actionable Weather Intelligence to willing farmers beneficiaries in selected districts of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Maharashtra | Wingify Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 22. | 2018 | Organizing Farmer Beneficiaries in a Producer Company and providing Hand Holding support in KARNAL | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 23. | 2018 | Technical Audit of Hafed Oil Mills Rewari and Narnaul | NABCONS | Successfully Delivered |
| 24. | 2019 | Development of Crop Production Cluster in to Farmer Producer Company at Village Kangar , Noorpur Bedi in Ropar Punjab with focus on Medicinal Plants. | IRA – HIMACHAL | Successfully Delivered |
| 25. | 2019 | Development of Crop Production Cluster in to Farmer Producer Company at Rikongpeo Kinnaur Himachal Pradesh | Wingify Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 26. | 2019 | Providing weather Intelligence services to 6000 farmer beneficiaries in Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand | Wingify Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 27. | 2020 | Providing Weather Intelligence Services to farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand , Rajasthan | Indian Meteorological Department | Successfully Delivered |
| 28. | 2020 | Providing knowledge based services to 22814 Gram Panchayats in Madhya Pradesh | Solidaridad | Successfully Delivered |
| 29. | 2020 | Linking of Gram Panchayats with Weather Intelligence Services on All India Basis | Indian Meteorological Department | Working |
| 30. | 2020 | Real Time Advisory System on Covid 19 from Gram Panchyat Decision Makers in 51 districts of Madhya Pradesh | Solidaridad | Successfully Delivered |
| 31. | 2020 | Program on Awareness Creation on Crop Residue Management in all Districts of Punjab under NAFCC Project on Climate Resilience Building in Rural areas through Crop Residue Management | NABARD | Successfully Delivered |
| 32. | 2021 | Evaluations and Impact Assessment of Micro irrigation Systems | NABCONS | Successfully Delivered |
| 33. | 2021 | Impact Evaluation Study of Centre of Excellence – Farmers | NABCONS | Working |
| 34. | 2021 | Evaluation and Impact Assessment Study of Nabard Promoted FPOs in Haryana | NABCONS | Working |
| 35 | 2021 | Training on Herbal and Food Products to 150 women | READ India | Successfully Delivered |
| 36 | 2021 | Training to 225 Women and Girls on IT Skills using Mobile Phone in Morni Hills, Panchkula, Haryana | READ India | Successfully Delivered |
| 37 | 2021 | Organized Bajra Food Festival at Rewari | NABARD Canara Bank | Successfully Delivered |
| 38 | 2021 | Training Program on Chamba Rumal making for 50 rural women of Chamba district. | READ India | Successfully Delivered |
| 39 | 2021 | Training on Herbal and Food Products to 50 women in Village Maheshwari, Jagadhari Yamunanagar Haryana | READ India | Successfully Delivered |
| 40 | 2021 | Training on Herbal Beauty Bar to 50 women in Village Haibatpur, Jagadari, Haryana | READ India | Successfully Delivered |
| 41 | 2022 | Community Development Training Program in Village Haibtpur Jagadhari Block Yamunanagar Haryana | Canara Bank Regional Office Chandigarh | Successfully Delivered |
| 42 | 2023 | Project Health Sanchar educating One Lakh Beneficiaries in 38 Towns of Haryana and 50,000 beneficiaries in 123 locations of Punjab on Air Quality Index, Air Pollution and Crop Residue Management using Mobile Technology | Wingify Foundation | Successfully Delivered |
| 43 | 2024 | Project Health Sanchar 2.0 Two Lakh Beneficiaries in 8 States of India on Weather Intelligence and Agro Advisoires. | Wingify Foundation | Continue |
| 44 | 2025 | Demonstration of Amrit Mitti Formation at 10 Places to 2000 farmer beenfecireis. | Wingify Foundation | Continue |
Sandeep Singh
Information Architect
Sandeep Singh MCA is key information architect at Kisan Sanchar. He is a seasoned software engineer having 18 years of professional experience in developing information engines and high quality delivery systems. He runs a Software Company at Ambala named Silex Software Private Limited.
He is a natural leader and have great command on his work. He is a profound enabler and team leader. He is giving shape to the Kisan Sanchar Flagship Program of providing weather intelligence to 2.5 Lakh Gram Panchayats in 6000 blocks of India.
He comes from a farming family background and has great faith that authentic and actionable knowledge available at right time is a key enabler to farmers for improving their productivity and profitability.
As the CEO and co-founder of Silex Softwares Pvt. Ltd., Sandeep brings over 15 years of experience in delivering top-tier IT solutions to a global clientele. With a Master of Computer Application and an MBA, Sandeep possesses a strong foundation in both technology and business strategy.
Since starting his career as a software developer in 2005, Sandeep has built a solid track record in developing bespoke eCommerce solutions, integrating complex systems, and managing projects on platforms like BigCommerce and Shopify. At Silex Softwares, he leads a talented team to create end-to-end solutions that drive business growth and innovation.
His passion for technology and commitment to excellence have helped him build lasting relationships with clients and partners. Whether working with established businesses or startups, his goal is to deliver solutions that drive growth and create value.
Divya Goswami
Director Finance
Divya Goswami is Post Graduate in Business Admisnitration with specialization in Finance. She started her career in KARVY and joined Kisan Sanchar in 2012. She heads the accounts department and take care of all financial activities related with Kisan Sanchar.
Nisha Kaushik
Head Admin Desk Kisan Sanchar
Nisha Kaushik is a Post Graduate in Mass Communication from Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar, Haryana. She is heads the Admin Desk Kisan Sanchar and manages all the communication being sent to farmers from all the desks of Kisan Sanchar.
She possesses excellent drafting skills in Hindi, English, and Punjabi, and she has good experience in Publishing, Film Production activities. She has good communication skills and handled big assignments in the past. She has exposure to handling international projects of international organizations.
She has a great understanding of the information needs of the rural communities.
Subhash Chander Gakhar
Secretary Kisan Sanchar
Subhash Chander Gakhar is Secretray Kisan Sanchar. He is retaired from the post of DGM Accounts from HAFED-Panchkula and gives volunteer services to Kisan Sanchar since 2014. He takes care of all complinaces of MCA and Income Tax Deparment.
Ravinder Mohan
National Coordinator Filed Works
Ravinder Mohan is graduate from Kurukshetra University has heads the field works department of Kisan Sanchar. He takes care of all india team of statewise volunteers of Kisan Sanchar and implement all fieldworks of Kisan Sanchar. He is a staunch stretegist and able planner and has undertaken activities in all parts of India.
Rajender Singh
Creative Works Department
Rajender Singh is a creative artist and has worked with several publications earlier like Dainik Bhaskar and Majoj Pocket Books. He hails from village Khubru in Gannaur Sonipat Haryana. He takes care of development of creatives of all communications being sent to farmers on Agricultural General Knowledge by Kisan Sanchar.
Aarti
Feedback and Support Services
Arti is incharge of Feedback abd Support Services. She is Grdauate from Kurkshetra University and very skilled in communication with farmers. She collects feedback and regularly contact farmers and understand their isuues and tries to get resolved.
Dheeraj Chawla
Broadcast Assitant
Dheeraj Chawla is graduate in Arts from Kurkshetra University. He works and broadcast assitant in Kisan Sanchar and takes care of all india broadcasting facility. He is well versed in excel and broadcasting templates of Kisan Sanchar. He also collects data of Mandi Rates from Government Portal and compile the daily bulletin on Mandi Rates.