ASA International India Microfinance Limited is a microfinance institution incorporated under the Indian Companies Act and registered with Reserve Bank of India as an NBFC-MFI. ASA India a subsidiary of ASA International, one of the world’s largest international microfinance institutions in the world. The institution commenced our lending services in 2008.

Besides engaging in microfinance, ASA India also reaches out to economically challenged families, improving the quality of life of the underprivileged by providing support in the field of healthcare, hygiene and education. The company follows the highly effective ASA Model, a methodology of ASA NGO-MFI Bangladesh that has established efficiency across the globe in poverty alleviation.

With its head-office in Kolkata (West Bengal), the institution aims to simplify, broaden and expediate microfinance facilities to narrow the huge gap between demand and supply in India’s microfinance market.

VISION
Reducing poverty by improving the lives of the underprivileged with a key focus on female entrepreneurs.

MISSION
We have a strong commitment to financial inclusion and socio-economic progress.

STRATEGY AND OBJECTIVE
Providing microfinance loans for business purpose to low-income entrepreneurs with the objective to improve financial inclusion and realise socioeconomic progress. Our loans provide an alternative to low income entrepreneurs without access to credit from traditional banks. We provide these loans using the ASA Model. The ASA Model was introduced by Md. Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, co-founder of ASA International, who sadly passed away in February 2021. Read more about our co-founder and tributes to his contribution here.

VALUES
We believe in establishing trust through transparency.

  • We adhere to high importance in our capacity to innovate.
  • We treasure our integrity and professionalism.
  • We work with constant eagerness and diligence.