Mr. Sandeep Sabharwal spearheading Sohan Lal Commodity Management honoured with “Asia HRD Awards”

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Felicitation to honor remarkable contribution to the HR Community

 New Delhi, 29th July 2016: One of the leading Agri-logistics solutions Group, Sohan Lal Commodity Management’s (SLCM) Chief Executive Officer – Mr. Sandeep Sabharwal has been felicitated with “Asia HRD Awards” for his contribution to HR Community. The award recognised Mr Sandeep Sabharwal for implementing employee development initiatives within the company. The Asia HRD Awards Committee Chairman said it was an honour to bestow upon Mr Sabharwal the “Contribution to HR Community Award 2016” for championing innovative employee development practices.

On receiving the award, Mr. Sandeep Sabharwal, Group CEO, SLCM said “It is a privilege to receive this coveted award and we are proud that our work in this field has been recognised at this distinguished platform. Hiring and developing the right talent is extremely important for any company to run a successful organization. Motivating people is the key to real success. As a company, we believe that increased investment in processes and continued investment in human resources are needed to better leverage the company’s strong capital availability and solid research and development capacity.”

Mr. Sandeep Sabharwal, Group CEO, SLCM at Asia HRD Awards

Mr. Sabharwal was awarded by Mr. Yang Berhormat Dato, Othman Aziz (Deputy Minister of Finance Malaysia), His Excellency Fahmi Ali Jowder (Former Minister of Works, Kingdom of Bahrain) and Mr. Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato, Dr R Palan (Founder, The Asia HRD Awards 2016). The award ceremony took place at the grand Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where the Asia HRD Awards Committee honoured the excellence of extravagant organizational leaders. The goal of the Awards is to showcase achievements and encourage the awardees to continue to bring significant changes to human development through their initiatives across the globe in distinguished categories. The categories were Lifetime Achievement, Contribution to Society, Contribution to Organisation, Contribution to HR Community and Movers and Shakers.

Every year, The Asia HRD Awards aims to honour individuals and organisations that have significantly impacted or influenced the society, corporate world and HR Community in the area of People or Human Resource Development. The Asia HRD Awards is a celebration and recognition of virtuosos who contribute to people development – whether it is to the human resource profession, an organisation, the community or society at large.  The Asia HRD Awards has honoured recipients from 18 countries across Asia since inception in 2003.

SLCM has a long list of felicitations to its credit and has been constantly focusing on creating the Differentiator in this field and over time demonstrated its capability in rolling out new and efficient products and services that benefit the agri logistics environment. Be it their process AGRI REACH (patent pending) which reduces post harvest losses or Kissandhan (Group’s wholly owned NBFC to offer Warehouse Receipt Financing) which has changed the paradigm of agriculture financing to bring real “Financial Inclusion”.

About SLCM Group:

Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt Ltd (SLCM) is an ISO 9001: 2008 & ISO 22000: 2005 Certified, Agri-Logistics Group. SLCM is equipped with technology to offer storage and protection services for the entire range of agri-commodities. SLCM has been handling about 363 agriculture commodities including Rice, Wheat, Maize, Mustard, Pulses, Cotton, Barley, Bajra, Castor Seeds, Spices, etc. across India. As on today, SLCM manages a technology enabled network of more than 1300 warehouses and 19 cold storages pan India with a total capacity of over 3.39 Million MT spread over 18.9 Mn sqft areas and a throughput of more than 397 Million MT. The Group has also applied for patenting this scientific technology of storage under the aegis of “AGRI REACH”.

The Group also has a wholly owned NBFC in India christened as “Kissandhan” which has changed the paradigm of collateral financing by financing across diversified agri products whilst being agnostic to balance sheet of the borrower yet complying with the prudential norms of RBI. In a short tenure of a year, Kissandhan has already financed more than Rs 537 crores across 68 locations and multiple commodities in India. It has impacted about 1,20,000 farmers till July 2016.