Our reach as on February 2010
- States - 15
- Branches - 1,050
- Members - 24,18,727
- Staffs - 6,637
- Loan disbursed for the month -
Rs. 295crores - Loan outstanding - Rs. 1,386 crores
States & Branches over the last 3 years
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Timeline
| 2002 -2003 | |
| 2002 July | Microfinance operations commences in rural, Bagnan, West Bengal. |
| 2004 -2005 | |
| 2005 January | Microfinance operations commences in urban, Ultadanga (Kolkata), West Bengal. |
| 2005 -2006 | |
| 2005 August | 100th branch is inaugurated. |
| 2005 September | 1,00,000 member mark is achieved. |
| 2006 March | Bandhan wins Pro Poor Innovation Challenge (PPIC) Award by CGAP, an affiliate of the World Bank. |
| 2006 -2007 | |
| 2007 January | Bandhan launches Targeting the Hard Core Poor Program (THP) in Murshidabad, West Bengal. |
| 2007 January | Bandhan commences Bandhan Health Program(BHP) in Bagnan, West Bengal. |
| 2007 -2008 | |
| 2007 September | Mr. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman & Managing Director, Bandhan declared as Senior Ashoka Fellow. |
| 2007 December | Bandhan ranked 1st in India and 2nd in the world on the Forbes list of World’s Top 50 Microfinance Institutions. |
| 2008 February | Bandhan launches Education Program viz. Bandhan Education Program (BEP) in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. |
| 2008 March | Bandhan wins Skoch Challenger Award 2008 under the category of Financial Inclusion. |
| 2008 March | 1 million member mark is achieved. |
| 2009 -2010 | |
| 2009 June | Bandhan launches a new program titled ‘Employing the Unemployed Progam’ (EUP) to address the prime issue of unemployment. |
| 2009 September | First batch of 292 hard core poor families from Murshidabad, West Bengal graduates to mainstream microfinance. |
| 2009 September | 1000th branch is inaugurated. |
| 2009 October | Bandhan wins 'Micro Finance India Award 2009' under the category of 'Institution of the Year' by ACCESS Development Services and HSBC India. |
| 2009 October | Bandhan family enlarges to 2 million clients. |
| 2009 October | Mr. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman & Managing Director, Bandhan elected
as a member in the Board of Sa-Dhan(The Association of Community Development Finance Institutions). |
| 2009 November | Bandhan establishes itself as a Rs. 1,000 crore loan portfolio institution. |