Girin Chetia is a director at North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS). He started his career as head to promote rural finance in National Institute of Bank Management from 1976 to 1979. Later he worked as field associate and training in charge at People’s Institute for Development and Training (PIDT), New Delhi from 1979 to 1990, associate and programme officer of Oxfam India Trust from 1992 to 1996 and as consultant from 1996 to 1998 (Kalkata Regional office). He is a contributor to an important training handbook on development in Assamese language named “Prashikshak Prakhikhyanor Hathputhi”. He is also the author of “Sakriya Setonar Anusondhanot” – a book in Assamese language on conscientisation. He is one of the pioneers of developing the social sector in Northeast India. Also associated with North-East Water Talk, Girin Chetia is the person who started educating people on water resources during the 1980s, when there was very less sense of water scarcity in Assam. (girin_neads@yahoo.co.in, +91 99544 51278)